A recent report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has shown that employers are recognising again the importance of using agency workers for both short and long term employment, and 86% expect the use of temporary staff to continue or grow in the next three months. This is good news for the recruitment industry and also hopefully for freelance workers. Good quality temporary staff benefit organisations in times of financial instability when many employer

Even the BBC can trip up over the proper use of the apostrophe as witnessed in last week’s episode of Panorama entitled It Shouldn’t Happen at a Vets’. Watching film of the poor animals in distress was bad enough but the programme also included some captions in which this howler (no pun intended) appeared. On this occasion, and this seems to be a particular issue, the problem is the use of the apostrophe in its or it’s. The former is used to show possession, ie its name, its

How many times have you seen poor grammar, spelling or punctuation that left you with a poor impression of a business? Whether it is merely the garden centre selling fushias or the letter from the bank putting it’s apostrophes in the wrong place, this type of error is becoming far too frequent in today’s written word. Since the introduction of personal computers, the role of the secretary or typist nowadays is less vital, and typing is now undertaken by anyone with access to