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They say if you love your job, you’ll never have to work a day in your life. So, for those working in finance, every day must feel like a holiday. The UK’s top industries for work satisfaction has been named, and it turns out that those employed in finance and accounting are among the happiest.more

The number of people leaving the workforce due to long term sickness is at its highest since the 1990s, a report suggests. Adults economically inactive due to ill-health rose from 2.1m in July 2019 to a peak of 2.8m in October 2023, said the Resolution Foundation.more

Forty-four per cent of employees are looking for a new job or plan to change their current job in the near future, compared to 41 per cent in the first months of 2023. - according to the survey published on Wednesday. More and more employees are open to interesting job offers.more

Writers are being invited to apply for a “unique” new paid position which would see them charged with penning poems about London’s most famous bridges. City Bridge Foundation, the charity that owns and maintains five key London bridges including Tower Bridge, is looking for a poet-in-residence to immortalise the famous structures in verse.more

88 per cent of companies that have implemented remote working in Poland have chosen a hybrid model. Of these, 77 per cent, precisely defined the rules for stationary presence in the office. 46 per cent indicated at least three days a week and 43 per cent two days.more

The number of compatriots in global and regional positions is increasing. Such recruitments are plentiful in the business services sector, but also in industry and FMCG, reports 'Puls Biznesu' today.more

66 percent respondents were in favor of introducing a four-day working week - according to a survey conducted by ClickMeeting. More than half indicated that such a system would not affect the daily number of tasks they perform at work.more

Unilever is to cut 7,500 jobs globally as part of an overhaul aimed at saving about €800m (£684m) over the next three years. The consumer goods company, whose brands range from Marmite and Hellmann’s mayonnaise to Dove soap, Lynx deodorant and Domestos bleach, employs 128,000 people worldwide, including 6,000 in the UK.more

Real incomes will rise by almost 9 per cent over the next three years, Central Bank predicts.more

Aldi is to hand store workers their second pay rise this year. The supermarket group said it will increase pay for its store assistants and deputy store managers from £12 an hour to £12.40 from June.more

More than a fifth of adults in the UK are deemed not to be actively looking for work, official figures suggest. The UK's economic inactivity rate was 21.8% between November and January, marginally higher than a year earlier.more

In 2023, as many as 224.6 thousand companies decided to suspend their operations. times - according to data from Dun & Bradstreet Poland, published in Monday's "Rzeczpospolita". Compared to 2022, the number of business suspensions increased by 61 percent.more

A woman thought to be Britain's oldest waitress is set to retire aged 92. Violet Garratty, from Sheffield, has been working at the city's Kenwood Hall Hotel for the past 32 years, but has been forced to stop due to injury.more

Workers in the construction sector can expect 10-15 percent raises this year, the increase in interest in green energy and ESG investment specialists will continue, according to the "Trends & Salaries 2024 Report."more

Among expatriates, 2,500 men and 4,500 women do manual labor, mostly Ukrainians and Belarusian women, according to a report by Gremi Personal. The authors of the study reported that the change in the gender ratio in the labor market is taking place due to the war in Ukraine.more

Of the 3 million companies in Poland, 32 percent are run by women - according to an analysis conducted by VeloBank. It was added that women, as business owners, enter male industries, e.g. transport and construction, but most of them are in the medical and service sectors.more

Tesco has become the latest supermarket to increase pay as retailers face up to the rising minimum wage and try to retain staff. The hourly pay rate for store workers will rise from £11.02 to £12.02 in April, while pay for workers in London will rise to £13.15 an hour.more

Nearly 3/4 of large and medium-sized companies in Poland have introduced the possibility of remote work for their employees, according to a report by Grant Thornton. However, 15 percent surveyed entrepreneurs intend to introduce restrictions on access to remote work.more

New laws that will restrict health workers from bringing family to the UK and require care providers to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) if they are sponsoring migrants come into force on March 11. more

There is a shortage of 4,000 lifeguards at Italian beaches ahead of the upcoming summer season, the daily newspaper La Repubblica reported. Young people are no longer interested in the job, admit representatives of the seaside tourist industry.more

Under a Labour government there would be “no option of a life on benefits”, the party has said, as it set out plans to reduce the number of young people not in work, education or training. The shadow work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, said the party would recruit 8,500 more mental health workers and promised that the sickness benefits bill would fall under Labour.more

Britain's third-largest supermarket group Asda said on Friday it would give more than 120,000 store workers an 8.4% pay rise from July 1, following a similar move by other large British retailers as the government's national minimum wage goes up.more

Britain almost doubled the number of visas given to foreign health and care workers last year, government data showed, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over immigration ahead of an election expected later this year.more

28% would like to introduce a 4-day working week. employees - according to the latest "Polish Labor Market Barometer" by Personnel Service. It was added that every tenth employer plans to implement such a system.more

For people who never moan about the cold, can take or leave showers and will get used to a relentless thrum of hooting trumpet noises, ideal jobs have come up. A heritage charity is advertising vacancies at the bottom of the world. Based in Antarctica, just 9,000 miles from the UK, successful applicants will have to adapt to near-constant daylight and always freezing temperatures.more