Guernsey Timelapse 2012 - High And Low Tides

We really like this amazing three minute video of Guernsey. If you want to see what Guernsey looks like, this is a really good introduction: website.

Population Consultation

The States of Guernsey Population Policy Group have published their proposals for a new population management regime. This follows on from the extensive consultation exercise that was undertaken in 2011. If the proposals are approved new legislation will be drafted which will replace the existing Housing Control and Right to Work laws. A system of employment permits will be introduced to replace existing housing licences. A helpful summary of the proposals is available on the AO Hall Website.

The full proposals can be viewed here.

End of internal email ?

Atos, a leading international IT services company is planning to ban internal email. Having conducted detailed research amongst their 80,000 international employees, they found that on average they were each receiving an average of 100+ emails per day.

Of these 15% were useful, but the other 85% were read anyway because people were afraid they would miss something! People are spending an average of 15-20 hours a week checking and answering internal emails, which represents a huge loss of potential productive time.

In place of internal email Atos are using new tools such as the cloud computing environment, social networks, instant messaging, micro blogging, document sharing, and knowledge communities. Atos intend to have completely eliminated internal email by 2014. For more on this story please see BBC website.

Pensions Survey commissioned by States of Guernsey Policy Council

The Policy Council have appointed research firm Island Analysis to conduct a survey about pension provision in the private sector. Our experience is that nearly all our clients have stopped offering defined benefit pension schemes to new members of staff, and many organisations have replaced their defined benefit schemes with lower cost "money purchase" schemes. It will be interesting to see what the survey finds, and hopefully it will help focus attention on this increasingly important issue.

For more information see website.

Employment Law changes in the UK

The qualifying limit for unfair dismissal claims in Guernsey is 12 months, so will be interesting to see if Guernsey follows UK lead on this.

For more information on changes to the UK legislation follow this link.

Atlas Recruitment supports Hope for Guernsey Swimmer

We were pleased to be able to support Guernsey swimmer Roger Allsopp on his World Record Channel Swim. All money raised goes to Hope for Guernsey. See a video about the swim at website.

Guernsey Investment Funds Conference - Invitation

"Ogier has joined forces with Offshore Professional Conferences again to stage the 5th Investment Funds Update Conference in Guernsey." For programme details and registration form see website.