The Bottom Line liked an email from Philip Rodney, chairman of Burness Paull, flagging a new short animated film to promote the Scottish law firm on its website.
He declares: “While we're not about to threaten Pixar, we have produced a short animated film as part of a refresh of our website.
“And while we're happy to discuss any film requirements you may have, our hearts and minds are still firmly focused on being an animated law firm whose advice our clients value.”
House prices across London’s tube map reveal the fascinating highs and lows of the capital’s property market. Just one stop on the London Underground - from Finchley Road to Wembley Park – can save househunters a whopping £1 million on the average price they pay for a property, according to online estate agency eMoov.co.uk. The next biggest saving is on the Northern Line, where moving one stop from Hampstead (average price £1.4m) in Zone 2 to Golders Green in Zone 3 (average price £962,000), can save around half a million quid. We have a suggestion for those inside the M25 fed up with eye-watering house prices – move to Scotland.
The average employee spends eight minutes a day acclimatising to the office temperature, according to a new survey. That’s more than 30 hours a year moaning about the office being too hot or too cold. To put this into context, an office of 50 people will waste six-and-a-half hours a day because of climate control. Heating and cooling specialist Andrew Sykes surveyed 2,000 people to identify how much the winter chill and poor climate control can harm productivity in the office. “Disruptions caused by inadequate climate controls are becoming more prevalent, especially with the ever-increasing amount of computer equipment that needs cooling in modern workplaces,” the company said.
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