Colborn’s Corner: Who’s the best?
Quentin Colborn says ‘so what’ to those businesses ranked in this year’s Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Who’s in and who’s out? These are the likely questions asked by those who made the list in 2005. Is this a preoccupation shared by HR Directors though? Perhaps not. Maybe it’s because I’ve […]
Britain – a nation of workaholics part 2
The CIPD questioned 1666 workers and found that the proportion of those who work more than forty eight hours a week has increased from one in 10 to one in four during the past five years. More than a quarter of long hours workers say that long hours have affected their sex lives and the […]
Sad but true – miserable workers are more productive
In the regular FTdynamo column this week, we learn that contrary to popular opinion it's not the happy workers who are most productive, but the unhappy ones. We all may have thought for many years that happy workers are the best workers. Sad to say, recent research appears to suggest the opposite – the […]
Passing share option gains to the employee
The Government yesterday laid regulations to help companies who grant share options to their employees as part of their remuneration packages but who experience highly volatile share prices. The new regulations, which follow new legislation introduced in the summer, provides the process to enable employers to seek approval so that they may make an election […]