Tag Archives: recession
The Training Lay-off Scheme
I received the following article to a website that I subscribe to- HR Works and thought it would be very interesting as an alternative to organizations that might be considering retrenchments.
Claire Stewart is the founder of PeopleWise, an HR and Employment consulting service. Like Neo in the Matrix, Claire sees through the convoluted mess of SA [...]
Trade your way “out of depression”
Gavin Tonks is a guest writer for Ideate who has offered to write about a particularly sensitive topic: Depression. With the number of companies folding during the down-turn, there is an alarming increase in the number of entrepreneurs suffering from depression. Gavin talks from experience, with many successful businesses under his belt, but with a [...]
Advertise during the downturn
Part of my job* is to discuss marketing budgets with managers of small, mid and large size companies. This has been particularly insightful over the past 6 months since the recession really put the skids on certain sectors of the economy. Interestingly, it has also started to reveal people’s characters in a more lucid way [...]
