Point of information: It's not an award yet, it's the government sending their recommendation to the pay review bodies. Other organisations, including unions, will do the same. Later on, th… (View Post)

That delayed feedback is something humans struggle to compute and go to quite hefty efforts to overlook. Hence the "cut investment, take the savings as profit, happy days" model of business… (View Post)

Depends on what happens in the rest of the economy, but probably enough to stop recruitment getting worse, and not such an insult that there are a load of strikes. Good management to get the process … (View Post)

As low as that? Because that seems to be where they are going. And not one of your dutiful British monarchies, let alone a bicycling Scandi monarch. (View Post)

Or, if you really want to hurt, the Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978. (View Post)