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SA gets a reprieve after S&P delivers its verdict

South Africa’s economic fate now lies in its own hands after Standard & Poor’s (S&P) left the country’s investment largely unchanged last week.
Together with Moody’s and Fitch, these decisions must therefore be seen as friendly warnings, rather than as reprieves, about what South Africa is seen to be doing and implementing over the next few months. Although the S&P assessment also recognises the changes and improvements made so far in certain areas of policy, the reality is that the economy remains on the cusp of junk status. South Africa is still at only one notch above junk in both S&P and […]
2016-12-05T12:25:28+02:00December 5th, 2016|Finance, Other|

Think Before You Ink

Posted by CareerJunction Company

20/11/2014, 07:00

Are the bank tellers with the eyebrow and tongue piercings, the waitresses with flashing gold teeth or the tattooed state doctors unprofessional?
In an article published in Psychology Today, US psychologist and business administrator Steve Albrecht argues that companies are violating freedom of expression with policies on tattoos and piercings, claiming that they want their employees to appear professional.
“Doctors, teachers, lawyers, brain surgeons, astrophysicists, cops, fire-fighters and grandmothers have tattoos,” Albrecht said.
“You’d be hard pressed to find a profession that doesn’t have tattooed people. This is because body modifications are not limiting in any way, shape or form.
“At the heart of the idea of ‘employee professionalism’ is the desire of a business and its people to be perceived as trustworthy, hardworking, service-oriented, helpful and reassuring. To not allow tattoos or piercings is to assert that people with them are not any of those things. This is baseless, […]

2015-11-30T10:00:04+02:00December 7th, 2014|Other|
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