I spoke last week to a teacher whose husband’s employer was dealing with the recession by avoiding making excess stock, but taking real stock of staff training needs and using the down time to cater for them.  At a time when training budgets are being cut along with everything else, I was dead impressed at [...]

The BBC and Workology, among others, have taken up the news of the British Chambers of Commerce July announcement - UK in ‘serious’ danger of recession.  Chamber Online expressed concern that business taxation might rise, squeezing an already thin profit margin, borne out by falling cashflow levels in the services and manufacturing industries.  That, added to the [...]