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Hope the Euros are better than this.

My company has a few years left on the lease of a large building but the landlord is looking to sell and we've said we're more than happy to terminate the lease if it helps the sale as we won't be going back in full time. Most people will be in 1 or 2 days a week. Every person in the company...

Fully expecting teachers to be labelled lazy if they object to a shorter lunch break and / or extending the school day.

They're way ahead of you there. Half the marketing department has been replaced with apprentices since the pandemic began. Bit of a tricky one for them as, to put it politely, they only employ a certain demographic of people which doesn't alway match up with the pool of candidates on...

Think I've mentioned it before but a client of ours is a chain of luxury hotels (in the £400 and upwards a night bracket). Virtually all their non-management staff are Eastern European and seeing the conditions they work in was certainly an eye opener. On minimum wage but live on site, in...

I was really hoping we'd get to spend the summer going over the same old 'how did we end up in Birmingham' and whose to blame. Who will be the first person to post up percentages of blame for all the parties involved?

Don’t forget cutting lunch breaks.

Shall I start a do we need to worry about H10N3 thread? First Human Case Of H10N3 Bird Flu Reported In China | IFLScience

Is he seriously suggesting if he plays a blinder he's back in and someone else will be kicked out of the squad? Would love him to have an amazing game now just to see how Southgate gets himself out of a mess that would be of his own creating.

Not sure what you're trying to argue here to be honest. My original point was full time salaried staff being replaced by apprentices who aren't up to the job to save the company money. A one year apprentice at under £9K a year is far less than employing someone in a salaried position of £25K...

Think the youngest apprentice we've had was 18, the two who started last week (to replace two full time salaried employees who have left) are both in their 30s so paying £4.30 an hour, before any subsidy, is a lot cheaper than employing someone on at least £8.91 an hour although if you told a...

Nobody can really deny that being at the Ricoh, unless its a stupid deal, is better financially than being at St Andrews. But that hides the bigger issue really which is the basket case that football clubs are. How many clubs would survive if they were treated the same way as other businesses...

Bit of a good news / bad news with the figures today. Cases over 3K again even with the weekend and bank holiday lag we always seem to get. That puts the 7 day trend at a 32% increase. However the good news is deaths on zero today which puts the 7 day trend at a 10% decrease. For some...

Don't see any reason you couldn't do what you suggest. There's already different terms for apprentices so thats not the issue. Whats minimum wage now, £8 something, apprentices are on £4.15 plus you get a grant (£1,000?) per apprentice. From what I've seen the system is designed to get people...

I don't watch a huge amount of tennis but did catch a bit on Sunday when they were talking about this. The presenter (no idea who it was, female presenter on ITV, didn't recognise her) was saying the issue is with grand slam events in particular. Essentially when they're on the circuit the...

You're in to the argument about vaccine passports here really. If everyone is vaccinated should they be subject to restrictions while we wait for others to be vaccinated. Not sure what the answer is but does 'one size fits all' really work. I can see the arguments that its not fair to stop...

Isn't that the whole point? Look at the data over the remaining 3 weeks and there's, as far as I can tell, 3 possible outcomes; hospitalisations & deaths don't increase and we proceed as planned; hospitalisations & deaths show an increase but not an exponential increase so we proceed with...

Why would it mean the vaccine had failed? Vaccines aren't 100% and the majority of the adult population aren't fully vaccinated. If hospitals are full of the fully vaccinated then there would certainly be questions about the claimed effectiveness of the vaccines but I don't think anyone has...

About time, although how effective it will be given it seems fairly easy to circumvent the rules, not to mention the amber list shambles, remains to be seen. Supposed to be essential travel only to amber list countries yet there's reports of hundred of thousands of Brits heading to the likes...

Which is the reason there is, as I said, hope that an exponential rise in cases doesn't lead to a rise in hospitalisations and deaths. The idea that if hospitalisations and deaths start to rise in line with the rise we're seeing in cases we just ignore it seems very bizarre to me. Not sure...