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Older and less well
Following removal of the Default
Retirement Age in April 6, 2011, one third
of employers have seen the average age
of their workforce increase. One quarter
(27%) has seen increased absence rates
or an increase in age related health
conditions, such as diabetes and arthritis,
according to Group Risk Development
(GRiD), the trade body for the group risk
industry.
One in four employers (25%) says
DRA removal has enabled them to retain
knowledge and experience within their
business and a further 17% feel it has
increased diversity in their workplace.
Three in five (59%) say the removal of the
DRA has made them more likely to recruit
employees aged 50 and over.
www.grouprisk.org.uk
Join the club
In response to changing working practices, workspace
provide The Office Group has created a network
of drop-in workspaces at its 13 London locations.
Designed to provide a better working environment
than coffee shops and hotel lobbies, ClubRooms are
suitable for everyone from mobile corporate workers
to freelancers, start-ups and small business owners.
They offer a choice of work settings with varying
degrees of privacy, including open bench tables, a
phone-free room and telephone booths. ClubRooms
are available on a variety of price plans, including
the option of a business address, phone services and
access to meeting rooms.
www.theofficegroup.co.uk
Desks online
Desk Union is a new matching service for
Scottish businesses with spare desk space and
small businesses, freelancers, consultants and
independent professionals in need of a place to
work. The platform enables landlords to upload
property details and tenants to browse and
book workspace. Tenancy is on a rolling monthly
basis. Desk Union takes care of the necessary
paperwork and collects rent. The average all-
inclusive rent for a desk is around £200 per
month, from which Desk Union takes 50% for
the first month and 12.5% thereafter.
www.deskunion.com 0800 1588558
Second motorway
services chain signs up
with Regus
Welcome Break has followed the example
of Extra MSA Group and become the second
motorway services chain to join forces with
Regus and open drop-in business centres for
today’s mobile executives.
Membury Services on the M4, ten miles from
Swindon, is the first Welcome Break service area
to have a Regus Express business lounge with
ThinkPods (private workstations), wifi, iMacs
and complimentary refreshments, as well as
bookable meeting rooms.
Consumers can access the business centres
with a Regus Businessworld card (£25/month)
or by buying a pass in Staples stores,WH Smith
travel stores or online at www.regusdirect.co.uk.
Passes start from £5 per day and can be used at
all 160 Regus centres in the UK.
Save a life at work
The Institution of Occupational Safety and
Health (IOSH) is urging businesses to invest in
a workplace defibrillator after a survey of 1,000
decision-makers showed that more than half don’t
have the life-saving equipment at work.
NHS data shows that each year 30,000 people
in the UK have a cardiac arrest out of hospital,
of whom just 18.5% survive. In America, 13% of
workplace fatalities result from cardiac arrest.
According to the IOSH, using a defibrillator within
minutes of a collapse can increase survival rates by
as much as 75%. Defibrillators cost around £1,000.
Start-up CardiacAid offers Philips HeartStart
HS1 and the HeartStart FRx defibrillators on
flexible leasing terms.
[email protected] 0118 307 0032
Did You Know?
Office workers have identified 2.55pm as the most
unproductive time of day. Respondents to a survey by
LondonOffices.com said that this was when they felt most
sluggish, with many choosing the post-lunch lull to check
social media profiles or start planning their evening’s activities.
Workers said they were at their most productive at 10:26am
once they had responded to early morning emails and planned
their working day. The second most productive time is 4:16pm
as people rush to finish tasks before leaving for the day.
Being seen to be busy
UK workers are resorting to a variety of
sneaky tactics to impress bosses, as one in
four feels they don’t receive the recognition
they deserve. In a survey by Mindjet, 13%
said they flagged up work they had done
to make people aware they are busy; 10%
occasionally stay late even when they have
nothing to do; 9% send emails to the boss
about something positive their team has
done; and 8% send emails out of working
hours to make themselves look busy (8%).
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