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Jeanette Wheeler, partner and head of employment with Birketts LLP in Norwich, looks at the positive ways employers can respond to the credit crunch.
Working at OpenContact has provided 51-year-old Gillian Blakely, from Thorpe St Andrew, with a very satisfying job. “A man phoned up the other day and complimented me because he said that I had a smile in my voice - and that comes from working in such a great atmosphere,” she said.
Enjoying an Indian head massage or hot stone therapy at work are perks not normally associated with call centre jobs. But one local company is providing these incentives to boost the well-being of staff.
Young people at the start of their working lives have just been recruited by accountants and business advisers PKF East Anglia.
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