A NEW report has praised the benefits of flexible working, finding it improves an individual's performance and increases their loyalty.

HERE we go again, on our soapbox, but cringing as we go. (Is that how you spell “cringing”? Is it a real word? You see, paranoia takes over when you preach to others.) Last month's Changing Course was not a rod for our own back. No-one wrote to tell us about our own grammatical or spelling mistakes. Unfortunately, Sue at Stena Line spotted an errant “it's” in place of what would have been an unobtrusive “its”….

Hilda worked for three years for a London council, which employed her through one agency then a second agency. She fell ill in 2004 and was absent from work. When she returned she found that her role had been filled by another worker from her agency…

HOW TO get rid of those annoying lines across the page when typing a Word document? You know, the ones that appeared out of nowhere, or that you inserted by typing “—” and then hitting the “Enter” key but now won't go away. Well, we've just found out and it was such a wonderful moment, we thought we should share it with you….

THERE can't be many other industries that are so inextricably and directly linked to global trade and without which global trade would just grind to a halt.

THE date? 14th June 2008. The time? 1pm. The event? The Making Waves Triathlon Challenge 2008. The cause? The Mission to Seafarers. The place? Canvey Island in Essex…