Work & Careers
Sleeping with the boss helps your career, new study shows
Filed under: Work & Careers, Weird and Wonderful
If you're not getting on at work, there's one surefire way to boost your chances of getting that promotion: Sleep with your boss. If you are male, it helps, but if you are female it REALLY helps, according to new research. And almost two fifths of office workers say that employees who have gone in for a bit of ooh la la with the boss, have come out the other end with a step up the career ladder.
Wednesday 4pm is peak time for online workplace slacking
Filed under: Work & Careers, Weird and Wonderful
When do most people surf for bargains on the Internet? Well according to new research from price comparison website InvisibleHand, people up and down the UK put their work aside to do some online shopping at about 4pm on Wednesday afternoons.At around that time each week, internet shopping surges by 75%, the research findings show, indicating that the end of the working day on Wednesday is when Britons are most likely to be slacking at their desks.
UK priciest childcare in developed world
Filed under: Work & Careers, Families
Childcare costs in Britain are the highest in the developed world and can hit as much as £20,000 per child, according to a new study.
Families with children spend an average of a third of their total household income on nurseries and childminders, three times the percentage spent by families in France and four times that of German households.
Workers claim they had pay docked for going to the toilet
Filed under: Work & Careers, Weird and Wonderful
A group of factory workers are taking their employers to an industrial tribunal because they say they had their wages docked every time they went to the toilet. According to the union Unite, 86 workers at the Dunbia factory in Sawley, have complained that they had to clock off every time they used the facilities. Spending a penny, it seems, cost them pounds.
Disappointing A levels? A gap year?
Filed under: Travel, Work & Careers
It can feel like the end of the world if your A level results fail to live up to expectations – especially if your university place was riding on certain grades.
Disappointing A level results don't have to mean the end of your university dreams, though. You may well find another place through the Clearing system, or if not, why not profit from some time to reassess your options by taking a gap year and reapplying in 2011
Dentists' pay soars: treatment standards fall
Filed under: Work & Careers, Families
More than one in ten dentists now earn more than the Prime Minister, with hundreds taking home more than £300,000, figures show.
A total of 410 now earn more than £300,000, while 2,410 are on more than £150,000. That's £7,500 more than David Cameron's annual salary.
Women face 57-year wait for equal pay
Filed under: Work & Careers
Working women will have to put up with getting paid less than their male counterparts for another 57 years, according to research published today.The depressing findings show that 40 years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, equal pay for the same work is still a long way off. Female managers get paid £10,000 less, on average, than their male colleagues - and the gender pay gap will not close until 2067.
Multi-tasking mania takes over
Filed under: Work & Careers, Families
We're multi-tasking like mad, and it's taking over our lives. Ofcom's annual Communications Market Report has revealed we now spend 45% of our time hooked into technology, and multi-tasking (such as listening to music, texting, and surfing the internet all at the same time), means we cram eight hours of technology use into just seven hours.Sounds like we're getting more efficient. Actually most of us are making a massive mistake.
First-year students spend more time at work than in lectures
Filed under: Work & Careers, Budgeting & Planning
More than two thirds of students in Britain work (with over a third working during term time) and collectively earn around £4 billion a year. First year students are now spending more time at work than in lectures.With student debt soaring to over £23,000, many have no choice but to stack shelves or pour pints to support themselves through university.
Pay less tax - join a share scheme
Filed under: Saving, Investing, Work & Careers
UK employees are going to miss out on a massive £141 million in tax breaks this year because they're not taking advantage of tax-efficient employee share schemes, says advice website unbiased.co.uk.There are currently 11,330 companies running tax-advantaged employee share schemes, which give their staff returns free of income tax and national insurance. If the 470,000 staff currently in another type of savings related share option scheme invested just £1,500 into a share incentive scheme (which is just half of the maximum investment) the total tax saved would amount to £141 million.
