The study, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley, have found that sleep-deprived people feel lonelier and less inclined to engage with others, avoiding close contact in much the same way as people with social anxiety. The study also showed tired people can pass on their feelings of social isolation to others, almost as if loneliness itself is contagious.
| Published: 20 August 2018
When does business information become a business disadvantage? Using today’s Business Intelligence (BI) tools can be a bit like trying to drink from a fire hydrant – too much information, from all directions, with no control. Far too often the very business driver a company set out to find and monitor gets lost in the melee.
| Published: 20 August 2018
Prominent movements against sexual harassment, including #MeToo and Time’s Up, have given over a quarter of UK workers the confidence to report sexual harassment. While the research unearthed the positive impact the movements have had, it also highlighted the extent of gender discrimination and sexual harassment still taking place in workplaces across the country.
| Published: 19 August 2018
Following the recent announcement that doctors and nurses will now be exempt from Tier 2 visa caps, a specialist healthcare recruitment consultancy has warned that more still needs to be done to advert major future skills gaps. The breadth of career options within healthcare must be promoted to school and university leavers if we are to build strong talent pipelines moving forward.
| Published: 19 August 2018
The term 'virtual' applied to a team is an interesting concept based on the definition of the word above. The inference is that these teams do not really exist! Let we know that they do, and organisations are becoming more and more dependent upon them.
| Published: 18 August 2018
The challenge of finding, retaining and developing talent has been long since bemoaned by employers and, perhaps unsurprisingly, over half of EMEA businesses have labelled this as their biggest business challenge for 2018, according to HireRight’s 2018 EMEA Employment Screening Benchmark Report.
| Published: 18 August 2018
As an Organisational Psychologist and 28 years working with the top three levels in Fortune 100 companies, I’ve noticed some common themes with some of the most successful people in the world. Contributor Dr. Marissa Pei, Consulting Psychologist and author of, “8 Ways to Happiness from Wherever You Are”
| Published: 17 August 2018
The ‘App Generation’ is the first to have grown up in a world of digital media and mobile technology. For teenagers today, the solution to virtually every problem and answer to almost every question can be found with a few taps of their smartphone. Contributor Mary Good, Chief People Officer - Fuze
| Published: 17 August 2018
Total FTSE 100 Chief Executive pay has increased by 11 percent in the past year. CEO reward increases outstrip pay rises for the wider workforce, fuelling questions over fairness and governance in Britain’s biggest businesses. An annual assessment of FTSE 100 CEO pay packages released today shows that CEO median pay rose by 11 percent between 2016 and 2017.
| Published: 16 August 2018
In terms of the perception of career, the landscape is changing from conventional Constable to Dali's most surreal imaginings. Parameters are changing, definitions are fuelling wild debate and patterns and directions are smashing time-worn frameworks.
| Published: 16 August 2018
