Author: Richard
Following the recent announcement from Yahoo! stating that all employees must now be office-based, a CWJobs.co.uk survey reveals the views of IT employees on remote working, including project managers. The research found that 80% of respondents do currently work from home or remotely, and 70% felt remote working was positive for the businesses that allow it. Even project management roles were able to be executed remotely. Perhaps due to the nature of the industry, 72% also believe that IT pros should be granted more flexibility for home or remote working than other office based employees. Over 60% of respondents however, did admit that working relationships suffer…
New research from CWJobs.co.uk has found thatal most half of the surveyed professionals believe there are more job opportunities in data management and analytics than there were a year ago (48%). The new research was launched at the specialists in IT recruitment, CWJobs breakfast briefing on ‘Big Data’, held in London last week. The audience heard from speakers Peter Judge, Editor of Tech Week Europe, and Fiarcha Woodman, European IT Director at Aimia, who discussed the latest trends in big data, and what they could mean for businesses and recruiters. Speaking at CWJobs’ briefing, Fiarcha Woodman stated: “New technologies are…
England 12/08/2013 – Of the 14,171 medical negligence claims closed by the NHSLA last year, the biggest payouts where for negligence that had led to a brain injuries. It is not unusual for brain injury compensation payouts to run into hundreds of thousands, or even millions of pounds. These kinds of injuries are rarely reversible. Even with the right support, medical attention and physiotherapy most patients with brain injuries rarely make a complete recovery. This means that many of them are left severely disabled in some way. In some cases, unable to talk or walk. Therefore, the impact on the…
Worries about the outsourcing of public sector IT jobs appear to be faltering, with 51% of professionals unconcerned about the issue in their sector.
England 12/08/2013 – Despite the emergence of new packaging materials, it seems that the corrugated box is still holding its own. Firms across the world are still choosing corrugated boxes over plastic crates and other more modern packaging materials. Sales of cardboard boxes are at an all time high. Firms are choosing this very old form of packaging over others for many reasons, but the main reason is that even after all these years the corrugated cardboard box is still the best packaging solution for a huge range of products. The history of corrugated cardboard is an interesting one. It…
England 12/08/2013 – Whilst other industries in the city of Liverpool have experienced decline the city has seen significant growth within its tourism sector. Several reports and sources have shown that visitor numbers to the city of Liverpool have increased rather than declined since the recession began in 2008. The city has bucked the trend of falling visitor numbers that many UK tourist destinations have experienced over the same period. According to the ‘Weathering the Storm: UK Tourism During the Recession’ report, Liverpool has seen visitor numbers increase by around 23% since 2007. Today, visitor numbers top 1.2 million, in…
Worries about the outsourcing of public sector IT jobs appear to be faltering, with 51% of professionals unconcerned about the issue in their sector. New research by CWJobs.co.uk has found that 58% of professionals believe outsourcing IT jobs isnow a positive or neutral issue within the public sector IT industry, suggesting past concerns have been addressed. This is despite 62% of the same professionals also stating they have seen an increase in the outsourcing of IT in the public sector. Outsourcing IT jobs had previously been seen as an issue by professionals, who expressed concerns about possible impacts on their…
England 12/08/2013 – For years, optometrists have been searching for a better way to help people who are suffering from macular degeneration, and it looks like a French lab has found the answer. The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne recently announced that they had perfected telescopic contact lenses. The contacts can magnify the wearer’s vision by up to 2.8 times, and importantly can do so at the wearer’s behest. It is hoped that, in the future, people who are suffering from macular degeneration,, who currently have to bear telescopic glasses will wear the lenses. The glasses most people with macular…
England 12/08/2013 – One of the biggest problems UK university students face is access to good quality and affordable accommodation, and this year it will be no different. For two years running the number of UK students applying for university places has fallen. In 2011, only 145,000 people had applied for a university place by mid November. The year before 180,000 had done so. In 2012, the figures were even lower, with only 120,000 young British citizens applying for a university place. Whether this downward trend will continue, remains to be seen. However, there is one issue that will remain,…
England 12/08/2013 – When travellers think of luxury they rarely think of Liverpool first, however, the city is changing and today it is actually a great five-star destination. There are more four and five-star luxury hotels in Liverpool than ever before, and more high-end hotel beds are being added all the time. In recent years, the city has undergone somewhat of a transformation. It has gone from being seen as a mainly industrial city to being seen as a centre of culture and the arts.It is a change that has been going on in the backgroundfor some time, but it…