Following new regulation on the Inquiry Proceeding of Freelancers in Germany – or Statusfestellungsverfahren – the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) Deutschland has warned of a decline in freelance numbers across the country at a time when skills are in short supply.

André Sola, Managing Director of APSCo Deutschland commented:

“While the aim of the Statusfestellungsver...

Job seekers can’t allow for complacency when looking for a new role, despite the rising number of vacancies across the UK. That’s according to job application tracking platform, RoleCatcher.

Responding to the recent results of Microsoft’s second annual Worker Trend Index, which revealed that 43% of employees are considering moving jobs, RoleCatcher has warned job seekers not to be complacent in t...

The first quarter of 2022 ended with significant increases in white collar recruitment in the UK, with contract professionals in particularly high demand as skills shortages remain rife. That’s according to the latest Recruitment Trends Snapshot report from The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).

The data, provided by the global leader in software for the staffing industry, Bu...

A deep uncertainty made up of “unknown unknowns” is delaying investments in energy transition technologies such as offshore wind farms or electric vehicles which in turn is slowing down the speed of the energy transition, according to new research from a team of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

The researchers examine cases of uncertainty where neither policymakers nor market actors ...

BigID, a data intelligence platform, has published "The State of Data Security in 2022", an exclusive research report exploring today's challenges organizations face with protecting their most valuable data.

The study uncovered a number of critical findings:

- 84% of organizations are extremely concerned about dark data. This is data that organizations are unaware of, but typic...

There are five essential skills that employers are looking for following the coronavirus pandemic.

These most valued business skills for 2022 have been identified by the programme directors of GBSB Global Business School's Master in Digital Business, a one-year degree preparing students for a career in any business sector going ahead with digitalisation, using insights from leading research a...

Offering employees a monetary bonus for good attendance actually has the opposite desired effect, increasing employee absence, finds new research from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Monetary incentives are widely used to align employee actions with employer objectives. Timo Vogelsang, Assistant Professor from Frankfurt School, and colleagues from the University of Cologne investigate...

The new Osirium 2022 IT Automation survey has found that almost half (48%) of UK IT managers claim that compliance and auditing tasks are only ‘sometimes’ completed on time, which risks the introduction of risk and potential costs such as late fees.

This comes alongside estimates that those involved in the compliance and audit process are required to spend an average of 16 hours per week on compl...

Audit bonuses can improve the work of auditors with little self-motivation, but damage the performance of highly driven auditors, research from Nyenrode Business University reveals.

Professors Herman Van Brenk and Barbara Majoor examined the impact of providing an audit quality bonus. Findings of their experimental study on 420 auditors based in the Netherlands show the effects are dependent on a...