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• The key to employee satisfaction? Competent bosses | Letter

  20-10-2023 18:32
  
  Prof Amanda Goodall responds to a survey that found one in three UK workers have quit jobs over bad managementFormal research agrees with the findings of the survey by the Chartered Management Institute on which you report (Bad management has prompted one in three UK workers to quit, survey finds, 15 October). In a study of 35,000 employees, my co-authors and I have identified three main factors that influence employee job satisfaction and people’s intentions to leave.The first, supported
  
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• The next generation of new towns must be places people are proud to call home | Letter

  20-10-2023 18:27
  
  Properly planned communities will have homes, jobs and low-carbon infrastructure embedded in from the start, writes Katy Lock of the Town and Country Planning AssociationSimon Jenkins’ article, which references the Town and Country Planning Association, sadly ignored contemporary thinking about how a new generation of new towns could be delivered (Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed, 12 October).New, large-scale communities are a
  
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• Top energy-efficient homes – in pictures

  20-10-2023 08:00
  
  Each has an A or B energy performance certificate … from a sprawling seaside ‘manor’ to a modular home in London Continue reading...
  
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• How Taylor Swift built her music empire

  20-10-2023 04:00
  
  After its opening last weekend, Taylor Swift: the Eras Tour is on track to be the biggest concert film of all time. How did Swift create this level of success? Laura Snapes reportsThis has been a huge year for Taylor Swift. The Eras tour, which is expected to gross about $1.4bn, is a journey through all her albums, from her early country records to her more recent chart-topping pop classics.“It’s like being bludgeoned with delight,” the Guardian’s deputy music editor Laur
  
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• UK ministers ‘have failed to convince public of smart meter benefits’

  20-10-2023 01:01
  
  Rollout of devices across households has been lacklustre, says the public accounts committee in a reportThe delayed smart energy meter rollout has failed to meet its targets because ministers have not done enough to convince households of their benefits, according to the public accounts committee (PAC).The government watchdog called on ministers to set out how they plan to convince the public to take up a smart meter after a “troubled” rollout that began in 2011. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Gold-plated’ public sector pensions are set to rise again...at taxpayers’ expense

  20-10-2023 00:02 via express.co.uk
  
  Civil servants, teachers and NHS staff are among those benefiting from the 6.7% inflation figure announced earlier this week.
  
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