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Flirt to save your job(15-Nov-2010)

In the last few weeks, there has been more positive news from some section of the media on the recovery of the job market. The reaction from our customers is however mixed. Like most things in the UK economy at the moment, the market sentiment is driven by who you speak to.

Financial services companies and insurers always like to judge the market and base it on their research. The report based on a new poll of 2,500 adults commissioned by Allianz Insurance revealed that employees are increasingly spending longer hours in the office, dressing smarter and flirting with their bosses to avoid redundancy.

The poll also revealed that workers in Gloucester were the most likely flirt to keep their jobs, with eight percent thinking of resorting to the tactic, compared to the national average of one percent.

The fear for job losses is real and at no point in the recent history have we faced such a massive fear of unemployment and such uncertainty. About 42 percent of people surveyed in UK, fear financial ruin if they became unemployed. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) predicted that 1,600 people could lose their jobs every day this year.

So apart from making sure that you have reasonable savings, learn new skills, have a good redundancy or income protection , payment protection insurance, flirting with your boss can well be an added strategy in your survival tool kit