From Putin to Pitt: a fascinating glimpse into the mind of America Vanity Fair’s power list says a lot about the country that produced it, says Jeremy Hazlehurst You will, no doubt, remember that famous New Yorker magazine cover from the 70s that showed The World From Ninth Avenue. It shows Ninth Avenue in the foreground, 10th Avenue behind it, then the Hudson River. Behind this, in [...]
Age law takes centre stage Hiring and firing are key area for age discrimination cases, says Jeremy Hazlehurst Earlier this week, the television presenter Selina Scott filed a claim for age discrimination against Channel Five. Scott, who is 57, said that she had been signed up to read the news while Natasha Kaplinski is off on maternity leave, but is [...]
Working women have never had it so bad: discuss Mothers have a tough time juggling everything, but should we feel sorry for them? For decades, feminists have talked about working women’s “second shift”, the extra work they do in the home after they have finished their day’s work in the office. It seems that things are much the same now as they were in [...]
The buck stops here: the pressure is on for the US coffee shop giant August 6, 2008 With Starbucks posting its first ever losses, is our love affair with Americanos finally over? Starbuck is weird. It comes from Seattle, which means it is only the third thing ever to come out of that city that anybody has heard of, after Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. It also takes [...]
Budget airlines have become a part of modern life, for better or worse August 1, 2008 Rising oil prices mean that cheap flights are under threat. But is that a good or a bad thing? Such arcane things as the price of oil were until recently beyond the ken of most ordinary folk. But the workings of massive Kazakh exploration companies and the politics of laying pipelines across Uzbekistan are now [...]
Goodbye to carrots: the stick is back July 9, 2008 Businesses are going to find new ways to motivate staff, says Jeremy Hazlehurst The City’s bonus culture has come in for a lot of criticism recently. The Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King said that he found the idea of massive bonuses “unattractive”, while Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, also said [...]
It pays to be aware when the pressure is on July 2, 2008 Managers need to take care of stressed staff — especially now, writes Jeremy Hazlehurst When times are hard in the markets, it’s easy to forget sometimes that it’s not only the bottom line that suffers. Managers also ought to be aware that their human capital can feel the pinch as well. As the FTSE has [...]
