Comeback currency of the year: Bitcoin beat the dollar by nearly 40 per cent last year to become the best performer of 2015 January 12, 2016 Bitcoin was the world’s best-performing currency in 2015, beating out the US dollar by nearly 40 per cent. The cryptocurrency has been on a roll lately, boosted to hit a 2016 high of $450 by recent turmoil on Chinese stock markets. In afternoon trading, the currency was at $446.31. “Bitcoin is living up to its [...]
Staff pay gap: Beating the Fat Cat Tuesday blues is about making bonuses work for everyone January 12, 2016 This week has seen a repeat of the now familiar outcry over bosses’ bonuses. Top bosses had earned more by last Tuesday than the average worker will earn in a year, in a phenomenon being termed “Fat Cat Tuesday”. And unsurprisingly, the size of chief executives’ bonuses is demotivational for UK employees, as recent CIPD [...]
Virtually there: How VR will change the workplace January 12, 2016 Like driverless cars, virtual reality has been a long time coming. With its origins in the sixteenth century, virtual reality (VR) techniques were once limited to theatrical trickery and the “girl-to-gorilla” variety illusions found in carnival sideshows. But with Oculus Rift on sale from March, the technology may finally be entering the mainstream. With psychiatrists [...]
Oil rout, shambolic Chinese regulators, and Apple analyst misses: Why don’t we ignore Week One and start again? January 12, 2016 Oh what japes, and that was only the first week back at work this year. But did we learn anything useful from the first five days of trading? Possibly, but has anyone come out of week one with any credit or stood out as a visionary amid the chaos? Not that I can see, I’m [...]
Five lesser-known tricks to successful negotiation January 11, 2016 It's the time of the year when we evaluate what we have achieved and work out how we can accomplish new goals in the 12 months ahead. You might be building up the confidence to go for a promotion and a pay rise, a new job or a big business deal. For any of these [...]
Diego Costa injury taints Chelsea FA Cup progress and Ruben Loftus-Cheek’s first Blues goal January 10, 2016 NULL