Clearly, the way organisations work has changed in the past decade to a shockingly great extent. This drastic change came across as a result of a series of changes. Realising the true value of employees, automating the business functions to save time are the most apparent ones.
To say the least, it was easy earlier to manage the workforce as the employees’ say was overlooked and the policies were rigid. As time passed and the needs of the employees started drawing more and more attention, policies started becoming more and more flexible and employees happier. Hence, as we have now entered a new decade, the future of work starts to look a lot more different in terms of culture and trends. And so, we thought of predicting a few of the workplace trends that we might witness round the year.
Employee wellness-The health of your employees directly impacts the health of your business. If you want to mushroom your business rapidly, you must take care of the health of your workforce. The definition of health is now not just limited to physical health but mental and emotional health as well. Various professional and personal factors influence the health of individuals. This is why it is necessary for you to expand the idea of health benefits to mental health checkups, and therapists.
2020 will be the year for companies to begin their actions in this direction. They will start factoring this as well in thepayroll software in India while configuring the CTC.
Employee experience-The percentage of millennials and Gen Z is increasing in most of the industries. And they want the policies, culture and space to be more and more flexible and comforting. Not only do they prefer to work from home on the days they feel lazy but also want the work desk to be flexible. Nothing should make them feel restricted. Hence, this decade and not just 2020 will become more and more about the employees, their demands, expectations, likings, dislikings and more. All of this would be done with the aim to keep the retention rate high, the attrition rate low and the hiring costs minimal. We can also expect a feature in the HR and payroll software that allows the employees to leave suggestions, and rate company anonymously.
More diversity and inclusion-Upholding values, becoming more and more socially responsible is the key to attracting great employees, making them proud of working with you and making them stick to you. So, the companies in this decade will try to keep the gender ration in check, be more welcoming towards the LGBTQ community and not differentiate amongst people on the basis of age, caste, disability or status.
Another workplace trend that we cannot miss is the rising culture of the gig economy. This economy is inclined more and more towards hiring people as freelancers. This progressively rising economic culture is going to be on the rise in this decade as it will cut a lot of costs for the company and thus help them save a lot of money. For instance, sometimes you may have a requirement for more designers but not always. So, to cope up with times like these, companies will increasingly start leveraging the gig economy. This means that when there is more work, they can avail the services of the freelancer, pay him for the time he has worked. A lot of money and office space of the company is saved this way.
Apart from the aforementioned ones, automation, especially in theHR Software in India and Payroll management software, will continue to make its mark in the decades to come. Moreover, employees will demand more and more work-life balance. So, these were the workplace trends that we see coming in and progressing with time by the end of the decade- Brace yourselves!
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Buffalo, New York —
After nearly thirty years, Pano’s Restaurant at 1081 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York will end a tradition of being open 24 hours a day, seven days a week by ending its overnight food service.
The tradition for Buffalonians, who are able to enjoy drinks at the bars and clubs until 4:00 a.m. will end sometime at the end of August or September, according to overnight manager Wendi Dittmar and restaurant accountant Roseanne Jones.
“We will be starting the closure of the overnight shift sometime in the next 2 weeks to a month,” said Dittmar in an exclusive interview with Wikinews.
Jones told Wikinews that owner Pano Georgiadis is “just fed up” with the “destruction, the walk-outs of bills and fights that the ‘drunk’ people cause” in his restaurant.
Pano’s opened in 1977 on the day of the blizzard of ’77’ and has “remained open for 24 hours since then”, only closing for an hour at a time on the weekends to clean up and prepare the restaurant for breakfast, said Georgiadis.
Artvoice, which holds the “Best of Buffalo” competition every year where readers vote for their favorite Buffalo place, has listed Pano’s as the Best of Buffalo for best brunch, best Greek restaurant, best patio and best super-cheap breakfasts for 2006.
Dittmar also says that Georgiadis is expected to make several “public service announcements” within the next few weeks to “thank customers for their patronage.”
Thursday, July 24, 2014
In the capital city Peshawar of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, unidentified armed men targeted security guards at the Hayatabad Industrial Estate on Sunday. At the time, two security guards were checking vehicles entering the estate, while others were praying. Police said guard Akhtar Zaman died at the scene, while guard Imran Zaman was taken to Hayatabad Medical Complex and died shortly thereafter.
According to the police, the three perpetrators were riding motorcycles, and escaped. Police cordoned off the area while collecting evidence. Reportedly, attackers look for checkposts with incautious policemen. Superintendent of Police Faisal Kamran said targeting of police is on the rise, especially during the Iftar. The security guards may have been mistaken for policemen by the attackers. Describing alertness measures, he said, “One out of every three cops will be standing alert at some distance at a checkpost or police car”.
The security guards were private employees of the estate sanctioned by the police department. Hayatabad police station official Ihtisham explained the police department provided their uniforms. According to Malik Niaz, president of Industrialists Association Peshawar, “They belonged to a group of private guards who assist the police in safeguarding the industrial estate […] formed by industrialists about five years ago after an increase was reported in kidnapping cases from the estate in broad daylight”. He also mentioned they had assigned more guards recently following increases in extortion and attacks.
A handout issued on Sunday evening said Chief Minister Pervez Khattak condemned the incident.
Fort Lauderdale Backyard Landscape Services – Welcome to Your Edible Garden
by
Shane Guice
How Does Your Garden Grow
It is happening all over the USA, even on the rooftops of New York Skyscrapers, resident of homes and restaurant owners are going green and growing their own herbs and vegetables. Veggies and herbs are not like fruit trees, they do no need tons of space to grow, just good soil, composting, large pots, sunshine and water. If city bound people can produce food for restaurant consumption in pots, just think what can be done in a large back yard situated in a sprawling urban area?
Landscape Art Should be Beautiful
While we agree that landscape art should be beautiful, who says veggies and herbs are not beautiful, they flower just the same as flowers flower and then the flowers turn into fruit. The fruit of your very own edible garden; and there is nothing quite as attractive as a bountiful crop of bright red, sun-ripened heirloom tomatoes growing in amongst the greenery of their vines! Let us say nothing of the flavor, the feeling of accomplishment and the fact that home grown tomatoes have not been:
Harvested for shipping while green
To speed up ripening – gassed with ethylene
Sat in cold storage for who knows how long before being brought to the shelves.
When a homeowner thinks of landscaping a large yard; and it is absolutely necessary to have those places of seclusion, areas for entertainment and for the children or animals to play. It is also just as easy to incorporate food as well as decorative plants. I have a landscaper friend who grows lettuce, beetroot and spinach in amongst his ground cover and his ground cover is strawberry plants. Taller plants in the rear consist of Cape Gooseberries and blueberries and the far rear borders which green the boundary walls are hedgerow plants raspberry and blackberry vines. Do you have any idea how attractive a blueberry plant can be?
The Beauty of Using Professional Landscapers
It goes without saying that if you really have no idea how to get your garden looking beautiful, whether it is edible or not; professional landscapers such as Landscape Art can get your garden growing with well established plants in just a matter of days. There is no waiting for seeds to poke through, not knowing whether they are plants or weeds.
There is no calling in pavers, rockery artists, play equipment, wall, pool, decking, water feature, painting, decorative art or other specialists. Your landscaping service offers the coordination of all these disciplines and can turn an ordinary back yard into an extraordinary backyard, quite literally overnight.
They will listen to your ideas and take cognizance of the fact that you as the home owner have to live with the back yard and in many instances maintain it. Whether it is exotic, playful, practical, contemplative or edible, all of these ideas may be encompassed into one large back yard with the help of the right professionals.
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Thursday, February 9, 2006
Neil Entwistle was named as a “person of interest” by authorities for the murder of his wife Rachel and nine-month-old baby daughter Lillian in their Hopkinton, Massachusetts home. Both were shot to death and found under a pile of blankets in the bedroom. The family had just moved into the home and had only been living there for ten days. Entwistle has not been in the United States since the murders.
However; it has been confirmed that Entwistle was arrested in England on two counts of murder, and one count of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition on Thursday. Until today he has not been a suspect.
“Entwistle was arrested by British authorities and faces murder charges,” said Emily LaGrassa, spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney’s office. “He is in police custody in England at this time.” Entwistle was arrested at around noon (7 a.m. ET).
A statement was released by the family of Rachel Entwistle saying, “The family is deeply saddened at the arrest of Neil Entwistle for the murders of Rachel and Lillian. We are heartbroken at the loss – to understand how this happened.”
District Attorney Martha Coakley, of Middlesex County, MA, said that Entwisle could have been planning a murder-suicide, but abandoned the suicide part of the plot after carrying out the murders.
“On Thursday night, (January 19) Rachel was alive and had spoken with family members,” said Coakley. She also says that authorities believe, “at some time on Friday morning, Neil Entwistle, with a firearm that we believe he had secured some time before that from his father-in-law Joseph Materazzo, shot Rachel Entwistle in the head and then proceeded to shoot baby Lillian, who was lying on the bed next to her mother. We believe possibly that this was intended to be a murder suicide, but we cannot confirm that. The murder was effected, the suicide was not. Forensic evidence linked the gun to Mr. Entwistle and his wife, but she had never used it (the gun). What we believe happened next was that Neil Entwistle returned the gun to his father-in-law’s home, that he then made preparations to leave the country.”
She also stated that Entwistle was observed leaving Boston’s Logan International Airport on a flight to England. He had purchased the ticket on the phone.
“He was then in Worksop with his parents. Authorities went to the UK to pursue that investigation. They returned, the investigation pursued. We explored motive, with witnesses, with information from searches, internet capabilities,” Coakley added. “Based upon that information and forensic information late Tuesday afternoon that linked the 22 handgun owned by Joseph Materazzo both to Neil Entwistle and to Rachel, we believed we had probable cause to seek an arrest warrant for Neil Entwistle’s arrest.”
Framingham District Court issued the warrant for his arrest last night.
Entwistle has been at his parents home in England since last month and reportedly refused to cooperate with Massachusetts investigators when they arrived in England to question him about the deaths.
So far, Entwistle has not spoken in public nor did he attend the funerals of his wife and child.
When appearing before the Bow Street Magistrates’ Court Entwistle said that he will not voluntarily consent extradition to the U.S. “at this stage.”
District judge Timothy Workman said during the hearing, “I am remanding you in custody at this stage. I am not granting you bail because at this moment I don’t have sufficient information to make that decision.”
When Entwistle was asked if he understood the charges that had been filed against him, he said, “I do.”
Court was adjourned until Friday.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described as “one of the largest [seizures] in the force’s 39 year history”, West Midlands Police reported recovering six big cellophane-wrapped cardboard boxes containing cannabis, cocaine, and MDMA (“ecstasy”) in a police raid operation on the Maybrook Industrial Estate in the town on Wednesday.
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The seized boxes, which had been loaded onto five freight pallets, contained 120 one-kilogram bags of cannabis, 50 one-kilogram bags of MDMA, and five one-kilogram bricks of cocaine. In a press release, West Midlands Police described what happened after officers found the drugs as they were being unloaded in the operation. “When officers opened the boxes they discovered a deep layer of protective foam chips beneath which the drugs were carefully layered”, the force said. “All the drugs were wrapped in thick plastic bags taped closed with the cannabis vacuum packed to prevent its distinctive pungent aroma from drawing unwanted attention.” Police moved the drugs via forklift truck to a flatbed lorry to remove them.
Detective Sergeant Carl Russell of West Midlands Police’s Force CID said the seizure was the largest he had ever made in the 24 years he has been in West Midlands Police and one of the biggest seizures the force has made since its formation in 1974. “The impact this seizure will have on drug dealing in the region and the UK as a whole cannot be underestimated”, he said. “The drugs had almost certainly been packed to order ready for shipping within Britain but possibly even further afield. Our operation will have a national effect and we are working closely with a range of law enforcement agencies to identify those involved in this crime at whatever level.”
Expert testing on the drugs is ongoing. Estimates described as “conservative” suggest the value of the drugs amounts to £10 million (about US$16.4 million or €12 million), although they could be worth as much as £30 million, subject to purity tests, police said.
Police arrested three men at the unit on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug. The men, a 50-year-old from Brownhills, a 51-year-old from the Norton area of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, and one aged 53 from Brownhills, have been released on bail as police investigations to “hunt those responsible” continue. West Midlands Police told Wikinews no person has yet been charged in connection with the seizure. Supplying a controlled drug is an imprisonable offence in England, although length of jail sentences vary according to the class and quantity of drugs and the significance of offenders’ roles in committing the crime.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
A New Jersey congressman says restrictions on federal stimulus money are hurting gaming destinations like Atlantic City, and he is seeking to repeal a provision banning the use of funds for casinos or other gaming establishments.
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“The demonization of gaming destinations such as Las Vegas and Atlantic City for business travel is wrong, wrong, wrong,” U.S. Rep Frank LoBiondo said Friday during a press conference in front of Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
The $787 billion federal stimulus bill passed in February specifically prohibits casinos from applying for funds for infrastructure improvements and other similar projects. LoBiondo said Atlantic City is losing millions of dollars in business as a result of that provision.
Casinos’ revenues dropped 19.2 percent in February 2009 month compared to February 2008, according to the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. LoBiondo said $160 million worth of business and 120,000 visitors have chosen other cities for their tourism plans due to the stimulus bill, according to Atlantic City Convention Center figures.
The administration also recently determined other groups like nonprofit organizations and local governments may not spend their stimulus money at casino properties. State officials said the rules are damaging a major pillar of the New Jersey economy.
“Are those jobs somehow less important or less meaningful than those in the manufacturing, retail or financial industries?” said Ken Calemmo, chairman-elect of the Greater Atlantic City Chamber.
Anti-gambling officials said the stimulus law does not prohibit casinos from taking advantage of tax breaks, and Atlantic City officials should not complain about the stimulus bill because the city is too reliant on an unreliable revenue stream.
“There isn’t a state, including New Jersey or Nevada, that could gamble themselves rich, any more than an individual could gamble themselves rich,” said Tom Grey, field director for StopPredatoryGambling.org. “They should’ve diversified (the economy) instead of chasing their loss.”
But Joe Kelly, chamber president, said 35,000 people work at New Jersey casinos, and thousands more around the state work for outside vendors that depend on casinos for their business.
“It is not just an Atlantic County issue. It is not just a Cape May issue,” Kelly said. “There’s purchasing done by every county.”
LoBiondo is working to repeal the provision with U.S. Rep Shelly Berkley, co-chair of the Congressional Gaming Cascus, and has reached out to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has a history of representing the interests of the gaming industry.
Effective Tips for healthy skin can be of immense use because a beautiful skin glowing with natural health is one of the most prized asset that you can have. A healthy glowing skin leaves such a positive impression on everyone we meet that leaves them all surprised in astonishment!We have been taught since childhood that cheating is bad. But, looking good and beautiful is a natural desire in all of us. So, it is justified to use skin care rejuvenation products to look young as a part of the effective tips for healthy skin. If a 100% natural path is what you prefer to look beautiful, then you should not apply any make-up, hair products or any skin care cosmetic products.But, avoiding any skincare rejuvenation products would make you look older prematurely. Hence it is acceptable to use skin rejuvenation products that give us young and healthy looks and make us feel more confident.Tips for healthy skin – Harmful Substances to avoidEffective tips for healthy skin would be incomplete without this revelation. You should be aware that skincare product manufacturers are using harmful substances in your much trusted skin care products. These are causing substantial damage to your skin health in the long term.A lot of the skincare products available in the market contain parabens and fragrances. Parabens are effective preservatives and help in improving the shelf life of the skincare products. They are clinically known to cause cancer.Fragrances are added to skincare products so that they smell nice. But their health consequences are very fatal because they are made out of harmful chemicals. They cause allergic reactions, skin irritation and also hinder the normal functioning of the central nervous system!Another culprit in sub standard skincare products is Mineral Oils. They work as temporary skin moisturizers and are used because they are cheap. They clog the skin pores and lead to acne breakouts and skin inflammation.There are many more hazardous chemical substances used in skincare products. You can visit my website for a comprehensive list.Thus, as a part of tips for healthy skin, it is very important that you avoid the above harmful chemicals and use such products with naturally proven effective substances that can give the best care and protection to your skin health.Tips for healthy skin – Natural Substances to look forI have discovered some secret breakthrough natural substances. One of them is Cynergy TK. It has been pioneered in New Zealand. It is being used in niche skincare product lines. It has been clinically proven very effective in enhancing the natural production of collagen and elastin in the body.Collagen and Elastin are the vital skin proteins in our body which can be called as the youth giving skin proteins. They give us a firm, supple, pliant and elastic skin. In your youth days, these were produced in ample quantity by your body, but as you age, their natural production slows down and skin aging signs like wrinkles, saggy skin and age spots begin to show up.In clinical trials on human volunteers, Cynergy TK showed amazing results. It showed more than 14% improvement in skin moisture retention and more than 42% improvement in skin elasticity in a period of 18 days.As Cynergy TK has been pioneered in New Zealand, you might not have heard its name yet in the western world. It might become a household name in some years, but as of now it is only known to some individuals like you and me who have done some research.And internet has brought it into the reach of anyone, anywhere on the globe. A soft and beautiful skin need not remain just a dream any more, the effective tips for healthy skin can make you achieve that in reality.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Success may be too much of a good thing for the future of storied BBC series Doctor Who. After the unexpected popularity of last Saturday’s return of the series to BBC airwaves, the star of the show is calling it quits from fears of typecasting.
According to a report from the BBC, actor Christopher Eccleston, who injected a edgier and sexier image onto the title character plans to leave the series once his 13-episode commitment is over later this year. Eccleston told reporters that his last appearance as The Doctor will be for a December Christmas special.
The show, which debuted March 26 after a 16-year hiatus, was the highest-rated television show in the UK that night. With an estimated viewership of about 10.5 million at its peak, more than 44 percent of all television households in the country tuned in to see the new Doctor. “The audience’s response for the new Doctor Who has been incredible and I am really proud to be part of it and I hope viewers continue to enjoy the series,” Eccleston said in a BBC release.
But that popularity was a double-edged sword for Eccleston. With roughly half the population seeing him as Doctor Who, he feared that once typecast as a science fiction Time Lord, audiences may not accept him in other roles. At one year, Eccleston will be the shortest-lived Doctor after Paul McGann who starred in the 1996 telemovie.
But the television network airing the show wants more of the crowd pleaser. The BBC has committed to producing a second 13-episode run of the reinvigorated series and says it is in talks with actor David Tennant to take on the role. Tennant is a star of the BBC period drama, Casanova.
In the announcement of the renewal of Doctor Who, the BBC did say it re-signed series co-star Billie Piper, who agreed to reprise the role of the Doctor’s sidekick for series two.
