Business In the Community Media Round Up, 24 June 2008
24/06/2008
 

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Employers worried by drain of talent to jobs overseas
Financial Times, p.8

Employers are worried that an emerging global jobs market will cost them valuable staff who are increasingly willing to work overseas. Almost a third of 28,000 employers in the "Borderless Workforce Survey" of 27 countries expressed concern that talented workers would emigrate, says Manpower, one of the world's largest recruitment companies.

 
 
Companies awake to the benefits of 40 winks for staff
Financial Times, p.16

Most of us finding a colleague asleep at work would probably make a quip about laziness. Yet some companies take a very different stance on workplace napping.

 
 
Barclaycard faces Ofcom scrutiny over silent calls
The Guardian, p.22

Britain's biggest credit card company faces being fined by the telecoms watchdog for making "annoying" silent calls to people's homes, it emerged yesterday.

 
 
Not in our backyard!
The Independent, p.1

More than 60 Labour MPs are threatening to derail plans to weaken people's long-standing right to oppose the building of new nuclear power stations and airport runways in their own "backyards".

 
 
Thread - Fashion without victim
BBC online

Thread is the online fashion magazine dedicated to bringing you the latest in eco-fabulous style.

 
 
Health and wellbeing measures help employees in war for talent
Employee Benefits online

Companies that address workplace health and wellbeing attract talent and are more likely to have higher levels of staff retention. The majority of employees (83%) say employers' attitudes towards health are an important factor when making a decision about a job, according to research commissioned by Business in the Community (BITC).

 
 

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