BA reports loss - still plans cuts up to 1,200 jobs

British Airways has reported a pre-tax loss of £50 million during the third financial quarter of 2009/10 according to BBC news. The loss recorded by BA from October 2009 to December 2009 was actually lower than expected.
Despite announcing that the company beat analysts expectation of up to £151m in losses, British Airways has said it [...]

Toyota recalls nearly 2 million cars after fault pedals worry

Toyota has stated it will be recalling as many as 1.8 million Toyota cars after a recurring issue with the accelerator pedal in a number of the models.
Amongst the cars being recalled are the popular Toyota Yaris and Corolla models, which may all potentially be affected by the pedal problem. Models dating back to as [...]

UK interest rates remain at 0.5 percent

The Bank of England (BoE) has left the United Kingdom’s interest rates at half a percent for the tenth month in a row.
Following the latest Bank of England meeting, a decision was made to keep interest rates in the UK at half a percent, a record low that has been held since March 2009.
The rates [...]

Time Management Tips Part 2

Here are a few more tips to help you to manage your time effectively at work.
Make sure you set deadlines for your work – if they have not been set to begin with. This gives you something to aim for and allows you to make the work time-specific.
If you make and receive many telephone calls [...]

Tea Money

Making staff pay for tea is a bit of joke in counties like England and India. Due to the reliance of tea from a young age in England and India staff that don’t have tea in the morning and break will work slower and produce poor quality work.

Recently big brother presenter Davina McCall was [...]

Search Engine Promotion

A good way to promote your business is by promoting in the search engines such as Dog Pile, Alta Vista, Ask and the popular Google.
To get to the top of the rankings all you need to do is add content related to the search you want to come up for. Then get people to [...]

Whiteboards create ideas

Getting ideas out of staff is hard, often your staff will have tons of ideas about new products changes to procedures which can earn more money but then don’t have an output. A great way to do this is to have whiteboards with pens ready at any time to place ideas on. It’s something that [...]

Reward Your Staff

Some people like their work some people don’t like their work. For the people that don’t like their work your need to keep them motivating but you don’t want to ignore the people who are comitted, they might burn your building down if you ignore then.

To start most staff are only at work to [...]

Footers in Outlook

Following on from my other post another great idea with Outlook is to add in a custom footer promoting your business. It’s something that many companies do but many companies don’t use footers to their potientail. First you need to have your name and sign off, having this will save time as you won’t need [...]

Create Custom Forms in Outlook rather than HTML templates

You may have several process’s in your business for sending forms from one department to another. It might be the case for a request for a holiday or an order for stationary. Often people set up html templates or html stationary that outlines the data needed.
In the example of a holiday order the details would [...]