Bad jobs and low wages, minimal benefits, no career paths, little or no training, and chaotic schedules are only way companies can keep costs down and prices low as 9 million retail works get $10.37, and 7 million restaurant workers $9.50 per hour. If companies offer better jobs, customers would have to pay more or companies would have to make less. At least one in four American working adults has a job that pays less than a living wage. In the past three years large companies including McDonald’s, Walmart, GAP and Aetna have raised wages. Why are companies investing in … Continue reading Empower Employees with meaningful jobs to lower costs and  boost profits

Brian who goes to the cinema every night for 30 years  and lives in a small flat in Kentish Town Road, north London, works in the business rates department of Camden Council and eats lunch at the same  Castelletto café at 2:!5pm every day. It is an existence carefully crafted to avoid disturbance and yet Brian yearns for more. A visit one day to the BFI brings film into his life, and Brian introduces a new element to his routine. After leaving the council offices,  he goes to British Film Institute on London’s South Bank where, alongside a small community … Continue reading Escape from solitariness

Unravelling modern woman’s life in seductive story of power. Emily Perkins  tap into contemporary conversations about power, privilege and gender equality  in her fifth novel Lioness, the story of a middle-aged woman in crisis. Perkin’s narrator Therese Thorne, an attractive woman in her fifties, who has spent the last three decades married to Trevor, a property developer who meets good and great people. Trevor is 70 year-old  and already had four teenage children from his first marriage when they met.  Theresa who had imperfect teeth and no real direction to her life, was helped by Trevor to get her luxury … Continue reading Woman’s life: Power induced seductive story