WHAT do your biscuits say about you? Or more importantly, what do your employees say about your biscuits? And does it really matter? Well, it does if you’re a law firm. The lawyers’ gossip website rollonfriday.com has conducted a satisfaction survey of law firms, and the overall winning firm, Burges Salmon, scored a whopping 92 per cent satisfaction with the quality of its meeting room biscuits (although the biscuit category winner, Wragge and Co, scored a near-perfect 98 per cent). So make sure you buy quality biscuits for your meetings — it’s one thing employees really do notice.
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THE perfect make-up, the ability to point out emergency exits with a flourish: just two skills of the air stewardess. But for one Chinese airline they are not enough. Don’t even think about applying for a job as an air stewardess with Sichuan Airlines unless you can show eight front teeth when smiling and you’re skilled in kung fu. Those without the former are considered not beautiful enough, and the reason for the latter? “In today’s . . . world, the ability to disable a passenger is very important, and we consider martial arts expertise essential for an air stewardess,” explains Sichuan’s HR adviser.