Help! My firm’s gone into administration. What do I do now? The collapse into administration of King & Wood Mallesons’s European arm has left creditors enraged, and competitors salivating in the business and legal press. But most sympathy was reserved for its staff, particularly after news that the firm’s bank had rejected a proposal to release funds to pay January salaries. This highlights how vulnerable staff [...]
Phew, it’s a scorcher: How to cope with a boiling hot office The office temperature is one of the most common employee gripes. For most of the year, air conditioning casts an Arctic chill over our desks. It’s even become a gender issue: air conditioning is calibrated to men’s body temperatures and metabolisms, often leaving women uncomfortably cold. But during the all-too-fleeting British summer, many offices have [...]