Day: March 28, 2022

Culture and change
Emma Browning

Let’s not talk about the Great Resignation, let’s talk about the Great Revelation!

Increased flexibility and greater autonomy during the pandemic afforded workers more time to spend pursuing interests outside of work and even spend more time with their children and partners, and most of us decided that we quite liked these changes! Companies that have remote workers tend to fall into two different types of remote working. Remote companies are either fully or partially remote. Sometimes, they also require people to work from a number of locations. However, central to the majority of remote companies is that most team members have the…
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Employment law
Emma Browning

The lessons to be learnt from P&O’s recent mass sackings of its employees

After two years of financial turmoil, ferry company P&O made 800 staff redundant a few weeks ago amongst outrage, after hundreds of staff were told via a video clip that, “due to a massive financial black hole, they were being sacked immediately, to be replaced with cheaper agency staff.” P&O said it was a “tough” decision, but it would “not be a viable business” without the changes. However, the excuses haven’t dampened the furious backlash from many corners, whether it’s from ex-employees themselves, union bosses or MPs who scathingly criticised…
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