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The cold snap is well underway and British employees are feeling the bite. Recent research from Office Genie has revealed over half (57%) of office workers believe they would be more productive working from home. This comes as a result of 50% of workplaces not handling weather complaints effectively.

A staggering 70.8% of UK workers have revealed that discrimination around age is common in their workplace, rising to 85.3% amongst those aged 55-64.

UK financial services companies are increasingly bringing their offshored operations back to home nations as companies are being affected by rising costs and lacklustre service in offshore regions, according to specialised recruiter Robert Half Financial Services.

Following the announcement that Britain has reached a historic deal on its EU exit terms, Samantha Hurley, Director of Operations at APSCo, comments:

Outsource UK, one of the UK’s largest & fastest growing independent specialist staffing agencies has today announced that Paul Jameson is to step down as CEO after founding the business 26 years ago.

Britain’s biggest electricity distributor is putting the focus on its future leaders through an upgraded training programme.

We are delighted to report that Regus Dynamic Workplace Recovery scooped the global BCI Hall of Fame Award for Continuity and Resilience Innovation at the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) annual awards on 20 November.

In the event IR35 reform is extended to the private sector following the Government consultation early next year, Qdos Contractor of The Qdos Group has outlined five ways expected changes could be managed.

Five key employment law issues that should be on every businesses radar in 2018 - Comment by Peninsula Employment Law Director Alan Price

Written by Sarah Musgrove, Editor at Brighter Business

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) is pleased to announce that Steve Keeler, Operations and Prosecutions Manager at the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate will be speaking at the first of our 2018 series of network meetings, on 10th January between 15.00 and 17.30 at the CBI headquarters in London.

With the majority admitting to wanting more flexible working

Millennial workers* are saving more per month than other generations, putting aside on average nearly £400 per year more in non-pensions savings than their Generation X counterparts, according to research from Close Brothers and the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA).

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