Workplace Insight

APRIL 26, 2022

Kitchen and catering assistants, cleaners, and sales and retail assistants – some of the occupations with the largest number of workers in the UK – are among the occupations to be given a ‘probability of automation’ score of over 60 percent in the ONS report (ie 60 percent or more of those jobs are at risk from automation).

Bookkeeping 98

Bookkeeping Catering Payroll Technology 98

Ask a Manager

MAY 5, 2016

A reader writes: I work at a retail job with mostly hourly positions and low wages. Employers aren’t allowed to prohibit you from discussing your salary, and any attempts to do so violate the NLRA. You can still be prohibited from discussing your salary outside your organization.

Salary 27

Salary Bookkeeping Retail Government 27

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 4, 2015

Can I renegotiate after a salary agreement? I asked to start at the salary at the top step. I shouldn’t have told you the salary sounded right before I’d had a chance to actually run the numbers in the formula you proposed. He reached out to me because his bookkeeper of 25 years needed to retire.

Bookkeeping 34

Bookkeeping Salary Flexibility Flexibility 34