Monthly Archives: May 2010

If you are wondering why I haven’t said anything about the spending cuts, it’s because I am on holiday enjoying lots of sunshine and laziness. Check out Chris Dillow and Freemania for comments on the public spending announcements. I’m sure Giles would … Continue reading →

Just seen the new coalition’s programme for government. It reminds me of an attempt to consolidate all the outputs from a management away day. You know the sort of thing I mean; all the groups scawl overlapping or contradictory ideas on a set of flipcharts then … Continue reading →

One of my more tiresome three-pint rant subjects is about the tunnel vision of HR professionals – and of managers generally. Most are able to pontificate at length about the minutiae of their chosen fields but many display a woeful lack of any … Continue reading →

Have you noticed how a different set of rules seem to apply to public sector and private sector pay? In the private sector, if you cap the pay and bonuses of investment bankers and plc directors it will lead to … Continue reading →

The FT’s Gideon Rachman recalls interviewing a young George Osborne for a job with the Economist at the fag-end of the last century. I don’t know what the Economist’s HR department would think about Gideon revealing details of supposedly confidential recruitment interviews, … Continue reading →

LONDON, 14 MAY 2012 – Global investment bank MorganGoldensacks this morning threatened to move its entire operation out of the United Kingdom after it was refused permission to relocate staff from New York, Singapore and Hong Kong to its London … Continue reading →

Remember those cuts to the Civil Service redundancy terms that I wrote about last August? Well the high court has just ruled them to be unlawful. That has seriously buggered things up. It was expensive enough to make Civil Servants … Continue reading →

Well, it seems the sky hasn’t fallen in after all. Despite all the hysterical predictions over the weekend that, due to our failure to elect a majority government, we would get our arses spanked as soon as the markets opened, the FTSE and the … Continue reading →

I try to avoid writing those shrill Oh-Shit-We’re-Buggered pieces of the sort you see in the Daily Mail but I must admit, I woke up this morning and thought ‘Oh shit, we’re buggered!’ After a couple of strong coffees I realised that … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago HR Magazine reported that the Tories were the most popular party among HR directors. This is not really surprising. The clue is in the second word. HR directors are, after all, directors and directors tend to be … Continue reading →