Monthly Archives: May, 2010

Writing in the ‘Best Workplaces’ supplement published with the FT on 20 May 2010, Will Hutton, Executive of The Work Foundation, muses why the ‘great place to work’ is not universal, given that it produces such good results for its companies. He writes: “One of the conundrums of the modern workplace is why ‘high performance’ [...]

According to Brian Groom, FT Business and Employment Editor , quoting research , by Astbury Marsden, the average number of qualified candidates for each new City job vacancy has halved from 5.7 a year ago to 2.7 in March   He believes the jump in demand could prompt a return to the aggressive poaching of talented [...]

I recently re-read an article by Stefan Stern in the 23 Feb 2010 issue of the FT, which describes research done by MacDonald’s in conjunction with Professor Paul Sparrow of Lancaster University Management School. The work covered 635 MacDonald restaurants and the 26,000 people who worked there. They found that the branches where staff attitudes [...]