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Endemol Shine Australia has advertised for ‘wellness managers’ to work across their reality TV shows. The production company is behind some of the biggest shows in the country, including Married At First Sight, Survivor and MasterChef. The wellness managers will look after the reality TV stars and their mental health. A step in the right … Read more
Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce has called for a ‘cull of managers’ at the BBC and demanded that they ‘justify their existence’. The veteran DJ, 69, has criticised how licence fee money is spent and believes it should be used for programming rather than office bureaucrats and luxuries such as the director-general’s car. Bruce’s mid-morning … Read more
A gym boss told his female employees that women should not be managers because they ‘just ramble on’ and ‘are too emotional’, an employment tribunal heard. Kris Whitelaw, 36, told Sophie Veitch that women ‘just go off on a tangent’ and said if he was in charge things would be run differently. He also subjected … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s ex-boss takes aim at fund managers: Fire them if they don’t hold big firms to account, says hedge fund boss Sir Chris Hohn Sir Chris Hohn’s firm TCI Fund Management was the world’s best performing hedge fund last year Activists such as TCI, as well as Elliott, Paulson and Nelson Peltz’s Trian … Read more
Managers who think gender bias no longer exists in the workplace are more likely to value male employees over women and give them higher wages, a study found. Experts from Exeter University conducted an experiment where managers in a profession with a high proportion of women employees were asked to evaluate fake workers. Despite the … Read more
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the end for investment manager Neil Woodford, for many years the sweetheart of tens of thousands of investors. Yes, June 3, 2019 was the day Woodford’s flagship fund, Woodford Equity Income, was forced to suspend dealings because it did not have enough cash to meet a … Read more
Full-time influencer! MAFS star Elizabeth Sobinoff ditches celebrity managers to represent herself By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:22 BST, 27 May 2020 | Updated: 03:22 BST, 27 May 2020 Elizabeth Sobinoff rose to fame on 2019’s season of Married At First Sight, and retuned for a second chance at love in 2020. … Read more
Sports Direct and House of Fraser ‘secretly pressured furloughed store managers to work once a week’ Chains owned by billionaire Mike Ashley had asked managers to return to store They were told to pack stock which would then be driven to company warehouse Two cases of managers being asked to return to the stores have … Read more
Bardot’s former manager David Caplice has claimed that the group split following an ‘explosive’ backstage bust-up before their Mardi Gras performance in 2002. Speaking to news.com.au on Saturday, David, who became the group’s manager just after they hit number one with their single Poison, said things had become ‘adversarial’. ‘I remember the girls became very adversarial … Read more
MID WYND INVESTMENT TRUST: Managers look east to beat slump By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 23:07 BST, 4 April 2020 The managers of investment trust Mid Wynd have not been slow in reacting to the economic turmoil resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. In recent weeks, … Read more