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Improving the quality of post-secondary vocational training is a key factor in ensuring long-term skill availability and job creation opportunities in today’s highly-demanding jobs market, a recent report by the OECD has argued. The “Skills Beyond School: Synthesis Report” recently released by the organization points out that the most basic vocational courses cannot teach the […]

The number of people currently in employment has reached a record-breaking 30.79 million, recent statistical data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was able to reveal. The figures revealed that 694,000 more people are in jobs compared to this time last year. Furthermore, employment increased by 112,000 over the last 3 months alone, […]

Implementing a solid and reliable workforce management system should become a priority for every forward-looking company nowadays, as 61% of British employees plan to move jobs in the next 12 months. Recent research by recruitment company Hays published as a part of its latest UK Salary and Recruiting Trends report suggests that “candidate confidence” is […]

A fully-featured, versatile remote workers module can help companies monitor their employees’ activity in a reliable and effective manner, even when they’re taking up overseas positions. This is especially important nowadays, as British companies are increasing the number of employees they send to work overseas but are not able to quantify the ROI, according to […]

The lack of suitable skills among candidates is leaving SMEs unable to fill up to 520,000 newly available positions, leading to a deficit of around £18billion to the UK economy, recent research was able to reveal. The survey carried out by digital lender for small businesses Everline and the Centre for Economic and Business Research […]

The implementation of effective workforce management systems can help reduce some of the negative effects induced by shift work, which include significant damage to staff’s ability to think and remember. Staff doing regular shift work can suffer from a substantial decline in brain functions such as memory, speed of thought and wider cognitive ability, which […]

A proper Management of Contractors and Visitors System can help curb theft and vandalism on UK building sites by easily tracking individuals and maintaining a history of who visited each site. The construction industry is severely affected by site thefts and vandalism, total costs rising to £400m a year or more than £1m a day, […]

Accurate time and attendance systems designed to meet the specific requirements of companies that decide to implement various remote and flexible working schemes will become increasingly important on the future, as more and more employees decide to embrace alternative working arrangements. Data from recent research carried out by the CIPD in partnership with the Agile […]

An employment tribunal’s decision that overtime can be taken into account when calculating holiday pay could have potentially devastating effects on British firms, business organizations have argued. That’s because millions of workers could now have their holiday pay recalculated to take into account overtime and commission after the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that it is […]

Reliable and accurate biometric time and attendance systems can help reduce workplace idleness and fraud, which can cost a business millions in lost revenue, Lund University sociologist Roland Paulsen has revealed in his latest book. The book, titled “Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance”, gives multiple examples of idleness in the workplace following interviews with […]

The living wage, a value based on the price of living factors including rent and the cost of basic retail items that differs from the National Minimum Wage, has reached £7.85 per hour, up from £7.65, the Loughborough University Centre for Research in Social Policy has announced. Research released today by KPMG reveals that, despite […]

Personnel management solutions are likely to come in handy for small and medium businesses who are faced with huge costs, especially when taking on their first employees, as recent analysis released by the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) was able to reveal. The new research estimates […]