Gender Equality in Recruitment & the Wider Market

August 26, 2022 Just 19% of UK employees think there is gender equality in the workplace, according to new research by technology giant Samsung. Workplace gender stereotypes are reportedly still rife in the UK, as nearly half (44%) of workers said they still believe certain jobs are exclusively male or female. The gender pay gap remains stubbornly high, and too

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Learn your employee’s hidden talents

The two met commonreasons for leaving one job for another in the UKare resignation or ‘other’. Not the result of redundancy, dismissal, the termination of temporary contracts, or for health, family or other personal reasons, this means that 67% of job movers were motivated bysomething else. I’m willing to bet that a large proportion of that 67% left because they

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Office working vs remote working

Ever since the internet became ubiquitous, there have been predictions that remote working will become the new normal for desk jobs. So far this has not happened to the extent that might have been predicted. A recent Microsoft sponsored survey showed that while 60% of employees reported that they could do their jobs remotely, 73% reported that their firms did

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Vallum’s Top Ten Tips: Body Language

In the 1970s, studies by Professor Mehrabian of the University of California in Los Angeles suggested that body language accounts for 55% of all face to face communication, while tone accounted for 38% and words only 7%. These percentages have been challenged by other studies, but there is a general agreement that non verbal communication is as, or more meaningful

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