Improving productivity is a key objective for most organisations. After all it is the flip side of greater efficiency. Or is it? You don’t have … Read more
Included in yesterday’s reports of falling UK unemployment was a statistic that a record number of people are self-employed. You cannot help wondering what this … Read more
You see these accounts showed that operating profits had grown by 1.487 billion currency units over the 10 years. Pretty impressive, I am sure you will agree. However, during this time – the same 10 years – the accounts showed that the staff costs had decreased by 2.014 billion currency units. That means the staff cost savings were 136% of the increased profits, due largely to average employee numbers being reduced by 110,000 people.
Is the workplace becoming more humane? Recent reports show that output in the UK has fallen by 6% while unemployment has only gone up by … Read more