by Rubber Duckers | Oct 6, 2023 | News
Have you heard of the 100:80:100 rule? It’s a working-hours model, designed to help businesses implement compressed working. The rule is simple. It states that employees will receive 100% pay, while working 80% of the time, if they continue to deliver 100%...
by Sally Humphrey | Nov 8, 2021 | News
When it comes to managing a team, we often tend to think first about the physical skills. What qualifications do I need for that job description? Is that person X-Y-Z-certified? How do I sign up for this new leadership programme? No business could exist without its...
by Sally Humphrey | Jun 11, 2020 | News
How has your organisation been coping recently? For most business owners, the answer will look very similar: the past few months have been incredibly tough. Economically, though, we know that the wheels are beginning to turn again. The government has released its...
by Sally Humphrey | Jan 14, 2020 | News
Everyone likes to plan a holiday – and with a new year beginning and frost still clinging stubbornly to the windscreens, now is the time when thoughts begin to wander to package breaks and escapes to the sun. Holidays are good for businesses, too, of course. But that...
by Sally Humphrey | Nov 1, 2019 | News
History is littered with thorny contract disputes. One of the most famous involved comic strip creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who in 1938 sold their debut Superman stories for $130… along with the apparent rights to the character (the legal fallout went...
by Sally Humphrey | Feb 21, 2019 | News
“Facts,” the author Mark Twain once wrote, “are stubborn things – but statistics are pliable.” This may be true – but not all of the time. Some statistics have the raw power to pull you up short and make you think twice. This happened to us recently when we were...
by Sally Humphrey | Jan 29, 2019 | News
If the annual appraisal made a noise, what would it sound like? It’s not an entirely flippant question. Ask the average worker and they would probably give you the same answer: something like a collective groan, which peaks around pay review season. We all know why...
by Sally Humphrey | Jan 8, 2019 | News
Have you ever heard the term ‘Blue Monday’? It’s supposedly the day of the year when – according to scientists – people are most likely to be sad, gloomy or badly de-motivated. Most years Blue Monday is said to fall on the third week in January – this year that’s the...
by Sally Humphrey | Dec 4, 2018 | News
One of the recurring jokes in the classic sitcom Dad’s Army revolves around Corporal Jones and his propensity to lose the plot when under fire. “DON’T PANIC!” he reassures his colleagues loudly – before proceeding to do exactly that. Like all good jokes, it works...
by Sally Humphrey | Nov 22, 2018 | News
Economists call it the Productivity Puzzle: if Britain has the fifth biggest economy in the world, why has its productivity growth been stuck in the doldrums since the financial crisis? The answer is complex and multi-dimensional – not least because the average number...
