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Sickness accounted for 131 million working days lost in 2011 – but the number is falling, finds ONS
Approximately 131 million working days were lost to sickness absence in 2011, a new report from the Office for National Statistics shows. This was a fall of 26% since 1993 (when 178 million days were lost) despite an increase in total employment from around 25 million people to about 29 million people. The amount of [...]
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Make Your Resume and Other Word Documents More Presentable by Making Them Read-Only
Source: Click here Microsoft Word’s red and green squiggles suggesting spelling and grammar corrections don’t look great on a resume. Even if you click “ignore” to get rid of those lines, they’ll still show up when others open the doc. Prevent this from happening with Word’s document protection. Reddit user Kevspace2 offers this tip for [...]
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CIPD suggests signs of upturn in labour market
The immediate jobs outlook has turned positive for the first time in more than a year, driven largely by a decrease in redundancy intentions, according to a CIPD/YouGov survey of more than 1,000 employers. The CIPD’s quarterly Labour Market Outlook’s net employment balance, which measures the difference between the proportion of employers that intend to [...]