According to the well known – and well respected – journalist John Charlton, writing for Personnel Today, a report from French e-learning specialist Cegos names UK companies as top of the European training league. The Cegos survey of 1,000 medium and large companies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain found that 61 per [...]
According to Global Industry Analysts, the US is the single largest e-learning market worldwide, with revenues exceeding $17.5bn in 2007 - representing over 60 per cent of the total market. Europe is the second largest e-learning market, with a share of less than 15 per cent - but the Asian market is reported to be [...]
The internet has ten times the influence of traditional print media on the average consumer, according to a recent study of 5,000 people by the global PR agency Fleishman-Hillard. According to the survey, the internet has double the influence of television, which ranked second, ahead of newspapers and magazines. Fleishman-Hillard’s study went on to [...]
Not long ago, the well known freelance journalist and contributor to The Guardian, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph, Guy Clapperton, hit upon what seemed a great idea in these web 2.0-enabled times. He decided to interview HR representatives of ‘high quality companies’ (including Microsoft’s director of HR in the UK) and turn these interviews [...]
HR review has reported that staff use of the internet to conduct personal searches costs the UK economy £10.6bn each year, according to new research by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which suggest that the average British worker spends 90 minutes a week during working hours surfing the web for personal use. Additionally, the [...]
