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From the category archives:
New ways of working
We have been very impressed with the work that Antonia Chitty has been doing in encouraging Mums to set up their own businesses. We know that 60% of all new businesses start in the home. We know that many of these are set up by women.
167, 353 self-employed mothers work from home.
Mums who run their [...]
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I recently went to an Inspired Entrepreneur evening organised by the best selling author Nick Williams. Screw Work – Let’s Play author John Williams was speaking about how we can choose to see work as play if we follow what we are good at and enjoy. I caught up with him afterwards and asked him about [...]
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It is interesting but perhaps predictable that more and more graduates are exploring the notion of portfolio careers. Certainly some are taking more than one job because of financial necessity but there is increasing evidence to suggest that the concept is attractive to the Gen Y group. Barrie has written an article on this issue [...]
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In addition, more than half (55 per cent) of the 3,000 employees asked wished they could do something completely different in life. This will of course be no surprise to those of us who have given up on finding the one job that will utilise all of our skills and engage all of our passions.
Given [...]
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This is according to research by Russam GMS business forum Interimwomen. The research revealed that a third of interims prefer to handle a number of assignments part time, 57% said they were happy to work for either one or more clients and just 9% of interims said they preferred to work on one assignment at [...]
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You may well have seen the stats released this work which shows that as a nation we take off more days sick than any other country in Europe. In fact 25% of all sickie days happen here. So what is going on? Maybe it makes sense to look at this alongside the unemployment figures also [...]
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Another TED talk and this one is about work life balance. Readers of this site and our book will know that we have strong reasons for preferring the phrase work life blend. However, the points he makes in his very sardonic manner are worth the 10 minute view. Nigel has also written 2 books – [...]
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We have yet to find a job or profession that cannot form part of a person’s portfolio career so you might like to see how it can be done in medicine. I only just came across this article which is now 3 years old but the points are all valid.
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