Warm up your voicebox for our festive sing along - featuring the UKGBC Christmas choir, a resurrected job market, a certain government framework (bah humbug!), decorated cranes, and some recipe ideas
One choir-a-singing
It was a pleasure to attend the UK Green ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Council’s (UKGBC) annual carol concert last week. The turnout was impressive, with senior sustainability figures from Crest Nicholson, British Land, PRP Architects, Skanska and Marks and Spencer all in the audience. As for the singing, for a bunch of amateurs, it was excellent. Though I felt the baritone of UKGBC chief executive Paul King could do with a little tuning before it’s unleashed on the public at large.
Five phones-a-ringing
Recruitment consultants are particularly full of festive cheer at the moment, I hear. As firms finalise their budgets for the coming year and decide on staffing levels, they are releasing an army of recruitment consultants into the market to headhunt new teams. Consequently phones have been ringing off the hook, no more so than at consultants. A wag at Deloitte Real Estate tells me one recruitment consultant called round all five people on his desk one after the other, telling each of them where they could move next. If you’ve been a Scrooge employer, be wary.
Tempers-a-fraying
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