Declan Chellar

Almost everyone, at some point in their career, has reason to complain about their job. Only the naïve do it in public. Yesterday there was a report on the BBC news website about a teenager who was fired from her job because she described it on Facebook as “boring”. You can read the details here. [...]

In this, the year of world-wide recession and the bicentennial year of the birth of Charles Darwin, let us all remember that “survival of the fittest” does not mean “survival of the strongest”. It means: “survival of the most adaptable”. By the way, I am aware that it was Herbert Spencer who first used the [...]

There is a good article on the BBC news website today that suggests most of us suffer from chronic sleep deprivation. Tiredness is a problem that seems to be largely ignored in the workplace. I know on occasion I have felt exhausted at work after a bad night’s sleep and if I have also made [...]