Amazon has revealed plans to create more than 1,000 jobs in the UK in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cambridge. At least 600 “highly skilled” roles will be added in Manchester working on software, machine learning and AWS, its cloud computing business. The company will also create 250 and 180 jobs at its development centres in Edinburgh […]
O’Reilly Media has released its 2018 Annual IT/Ops Salary Survey. Began in 2017, the survey aims to share insight into the state of the global DevOps industry, and help professionals create a basis for salary discussions. The 2018 survey has shown that the global median pay for DevOps professionals currently stands at $90K a year. […]
Virgin Trains and Stagecoach shared in £51.2m worth of dividends from the West Coast main line railway, shortly before walking away from another franchise. Virgin Rail Group’s dividends, for the year ending 31 March 2018, are almost double the £27.9m that was given back to its shareholders in 2015. The details come after the firms’ […]
Online retailing giant Amazon has been criticised for cutting benefits for UK warehouse workers, offsetting part of a pay rise announced this week. The removal of employee share and incentive schemes could cost some workers £1,500 in a single year, according to the GMB union. Amazon, it says, is imposing “a stealth tax on its […]
A global survey of over 1,000 HR, Business, and Procurement professionals has revealed that the competition for talent is causing major shifts in corporate strategy, as well as significant disagreements among business functions regarding their companies’ approaches to finding, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new employees. The report entitled Talent Acquisition 360 from Cielo, the world’s […]
Mike Ashley’s firm has sacked the senior management at House of Fraser just weeks after it bought the department store chain. In a one-sentence announcement to the stock market, Sports Direct said it had “dismissed the former directors and senior management of House of Fraser”. The move followed “calls for an investigation” into the retailer’s […]
With one of the biggest pitfalls historically in business being fully recognising the importance of “people” functions like HR, recruiting, learning, development and many HR-related functions still struggling for a seat “at the table”, Perkbox, is launching it’s ‘cost of disengagement calculator’ – a new tool to help UK businesses uncover the true cost of […]
With industry 4.0 on the horizon, companies are rapidly rethinking the way they staff their technology departments, according to research from recruitment specialist Robert Half Technology. The study, which asked CIOs from across the UK for their views on the current trends impacting the modern workplace, found that 41% think the internet of things is […]
Van driving, roofing, police work – all jobs for men. At least, that’s what a cluster of job ads placed on Facebook seemed to suggest. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday submitted a complaint to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that Facebook’s advertising system allows employers to target job ads based on […]
British Steel has announced it is to cut 400 jobs from its worldwide operations. The company, which employs 5,000 people, said the job losses were part of a “streamlining” process. Most of the redundancies will be in managerial, professional and administrative roles across its businesses in the UK, Ireland, France and the Netherlands. The Community […]
