Secretarial, PA’s, Administration News

TSC, now rebranded as HEROtsc, announced earlier this year that it would have to lay off 200 of its employees. However, a new deal struck with Sky means that the call centre company will be likely to offer a large proportion of those it made unemployed their jobs back as it looks to fulfil its new contract...

Manchester-based sales staff and search engine optimisation consultancy FirstFound has announced that it is to take on 22 new members of staff following its most recent recruitment drive. The company is presently situated at St James' on Oxford Road in the city centre. Crain's Manchester Business reported..

Scottish National Party treasury spokesperson Stewart Hosie has praised the work of Scottish Development International (SDI) for safeguarding and creating up to 4,000 jobs in the country. The organisation has invested more than £500 million into the Scottish economy and has helped protect the livelihoods..

A new business development that is expected to create 3,500 jobs for workers in Sunderland has edged a step closer to completion. The Sunderland Echo reports that the first stage of construction at Admiral Point at Spectrum Business Park in Dawdon is now complete, with work continuing apace on phase..

Although recruitment in the administrative and secretarial industries is quiet at the moment, it will be one of the first to pick up after the recession, it has been claimed. Speaking to Recruiter, Faye Stephenson, director at Find a job , believes that when businesses begin to recover they will..

Businesses should be ensuring that office workers take regular breaks to keep productivity levels high, a new survey by PopCap Games has stated. However, 57 per cent of the workers questioned by the firm said that they now have e-break rather than a tea break and trawl the internet for their own personal..

Employees in British businesses are no longer donning a suit before heading off to the office, a new poll has revealed. According to research from the Aziz Corporation, six out of ten UK offices have a more casual dress code and only one in four workers must wear a suit to work, Online Recruitment reports...

A clash of personalities in an office environment could be damaging to the overall productivity of a business, it has been suggested. According to Talent Q, a certain mix of personalities may affect the morale and productivity levels of those in administrative office roles, Online Recruitment reports...

Employees - which could include secretaries and personal assistants - who send out business correspondence that contains punctuation and spelling errors may be damaging the reputation of the company, it has been suggested. These comments were made by Heather Ker, creator of Better Writing: Better Business,..

Workers in administrative jobs often take a lunch break that lasts for less than half an hour, a new survey has revealed. According to a poll of 5,000 workers by Reed Employment, eight out of ten employees take less than 30 minutes for lunch and 44 per cent of people eat their lunch at their desk, Online..