“BT has said it will cut about 15,000 jobs this year, mostly in the UK, and has reported an annual loss of £134m. The firm also said it had cut 15,000 jobs in the past year, which was 5,000 more than had been expected”. The BT spokesman said they hoped to remove the positions through [...]
“Needless jargon in the workplace is baffling employees and widening the divide between management and staff, a survey suggests. Investors in People said that the proliferation of phrases such as ‘blue-sky thinking’ and ‘brain dump’ was damaging to British industry”. Is this actually true? It would be interesting to see the actual survey questions, and [...]
The story of the current owners of the HP Sauce brand, Heinz, preparing to close the factory at Aston Cross (which you can see on the side of the Aston Distressway^WExpressway on the way into Birmingham from the M6) where it has been made for the last 100 years has been gripping the Birmingham media [...]
I have to admit I’m not an Apple fan at all – I’ve always considered their products overpriced compared with their competitors, my experience of using Macs has been, despite the almost cult-like claims of their proud owners, that they crash just as much as Windows boxes, and they have just the same issues of [...]
“LONG-serving workers at Birmingham chocolate giant Cadbury are being rejected – because the company claims they cannot spell. Dozens of so-called ‘temporary’ staff, who have been employed at the Bournville factory for up to 14 years, were forced to sit literacy and numeracy tests and told not to return to their jobs if they failed”. Basically, this [...]