Dressed to
impress
Work and Income has provided a list of the top 10 stores
where people had spent the most under its transition
to work grant. Family department store The Warehouse
was at the top of the spending list with $1.16 million paid
out to 8792 people, followed by Farmers with $793,353.
Nearly $256,000 was spent at Glassons by women looking
for work and $378,428 at Hallensteins by men kitting
themselves out for interviews. The list also included several
safety equipment and clothing stores for tradesmen and
farm workers such as Farmlands, NZ Safety, Bunnings,
RD1 and Protector Safety. Sapphire Consultants, a
recruitment and training company, rounds out the top 10
with $210,551 paid out for 1797 people.
Source: APN
Easy peasy business
New Zealand has been ranked as
the easiest place to start a business
out of 185 countries according to the
World Bank and International Finance
Corporation's Doing Business 2013. The
report said it takes only one day and one
procedure to register a private company
in New Zealand. Ranking highly on the
ease of doing business index means a
country's regulatory environment is more
conducive to starting and operating a firm,
the report said. New Zealand was also
rated highest for protecting investors and
the third most business-friendly economy.
Source: NZ Herald
Bad circulation
Dealing with a co-worker you hate
Try as you might to keep things professional, sometimes the personal intrudes on
business. And that's often in the form of a colleague you simply can't stand.
Maybe he is competent and not so obnoxious as to be actually corrosive to your
company culture, so you can't fire or completely avoid him. But something about him
just rubs you the wrong way���big time. On the American Express Open Forum blog,
for example, consultant Mike Michalowicz looks to Abraham Lincoln for inspiration on
how to manage someone you simply don't like. As the much-chattered about book
Team of Rivals details, Lincoln made an asset out of personal animosity by inviting his
enemies into his cabinet. His presidency was stronger for it, and Michalowisz insists
that likewise your company will be stronger for incorporating clashing viewpoints and
personal styles.
Source: Business Insider
ested over a $1.6
Six people have been arr
involved the sale
million invoice scam which
s that did not exist
of advertising in magazine
ulated as claimed.
or were not as widely circ
onth operation
The arrests follow a five-m
staff from multiple
involving more than 60
kind to crack
agencies - the first of its
New Zealand.
down on invoice scams in
in Auckland, Port
Police arrested six people
search warrants
Waikato and Picton after
n 25 locations
were executed at more tha
throughout the country.
participating in an
All are facing charges of
, while five are also
organised criminal group
facing fraud charges.
Source: APNZ
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