All Good employer guide articles – Page 3

  • Features

    The Good Employers Guide 2009

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    The industry's top 50 employers

  • Features

    Treat your staff with honesty and humanity

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of people have been made redundant in the past few months and more will probably follow. How should a good employer handle this painful process? Josephine Smit found out

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    Crumbling cookies

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Your wallet may feel a bit light right now, but that’s just the way things are sometimes. Cheer up, put on a cuppa and mull over Guy Browning’s creative economies, starting with …

  • Features

    Brave new world

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Many companies are mounting expeditions abroad to escape the UK downturn, but with global expansion comes a whole set of interesting problems.

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    Why do we give benefits?

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Some firms shower their staff with cars, flexitime, parties and sabbaticals on the understanding that their generosity will be rewarded. Debika Ray finds out if it is

  • News

    The good employer guide 2008

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

  • Features

    The big picture: Employers guide 2008

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    So now we know which construction’s best employers are, but what else does all that data tell us? David Rogers crunches the numbers

  • The Building Good Employer Guide 2007
    Features

    The Building Good Employer Guide 2007

    2007-10-19T16:44:00Z

    Find the best employers in the industry with our Good Employer Guide which features an independent survey of 15,000 employees

  • Features

    What the table tells us

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    So do contractors do more inspiring work than architects? Who hands out the most motors? Are engineers more generous with holidays than consultants? Which firms give you the most maternity benefits? The best pensions? Which is the most fun to work for? David Rogers analyses the data

  • Features

    The way we work now

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Ten years ago, UK construction companies resembled the French foreign legion in their treatment of workers. But the harder they’ve fought to recruit staff, the more they’ve developed their soft skills.

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    Why a good employer is a green employer

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    That big purple balloon over there symbolises the amount of carbon that your office produces. If you want to boost staff morale, all you have to do is shrink it.

  • Features

    Is this Britain’s best boss?

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    What qualities make a leader special. Is it charisma? Is it a corduroy suit and a comedy haircut? Or is it that they continue to employ you after you’ve written a sex farce about them and put it on in your local pub? Toby Young says all these play a ...

  • News

    The good employer guide 2007

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    To view this supplement as a digital edition, click here.

  • News

    Specifier 20 April 2007

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z