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...Telford & Wrekin council said the introduction of its AI-powered Ask Tom chatbot had cut waiting times by nearly 20 per cent and increased the capacity of call-handling centres covering everything from housing...
...Rahm served as ex-president Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff and mayor of Chicago and is now US ambassador to Japan....
...According to Lucy Allan, Tory MP for the Midlands seat of Telford: “We clearly have a southern-dominated government and the team around the prime minister is southern dominated.”...
...Mid Staffs was exposed not by well-remunerated oversight bodies, but by ordinary people who lost relatives, as was also the case with NHS scandals at Morecambe Bay, Shrewsbury and Telford, Nottingham and...
...The staff had also cited “suboptimal” staffing levels and staff-patient ratios....
...I was sitting on the board of the UK’s hospital regulator, the CQC, for two of the years in which Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust was killing women and babies — and covering it up....
...Shaun Davies, leader of Telford and Wrekin Council and chair of the Local Government Association’s Resources Board, said that “grants have been a vital lifeline to businesses and councils will work hard...
...Mr Johnson invited his audience in Telford to imagine what Britain would look like “in ten years’ time”, suggesting his ambition is for two terms in Downing Street....
...An all-staff meeting is held at 5pm. Tory insiders say there is a clear chain of command in the campaign....
...About 50 per cent of the 1,200 staff at the Telford plant are non-UK citizens from the EU....
...Staff submit to compulsory aptitude and personality tests — unapologetically meritocratic tools for identifying hungry, and often cheap, talent — which Mr Smith boasts have helped roofers and mailroom employees...
...After the 2016 election Trump’s staff secretary met Fiona Reeves, the woman who ran Obama’s mailroom, who told him about the LADs. She was told that someone would get back to her for more information....
...Starting today, there will be a dedicated helpline with 2,000 staff ready to help....
...In recent weeks two of Mr Trudeau’s chief staff, Gerald Butts and Katie Telford, have travelled to Washington to meet Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, in a bid to smooth relations with the new Trump government...
...Being “purpose-led” also helped Veolia attract and retain talented staff, Ms Brachlianoff says....
...Hoshizaki has also set up a research and development team in Telford....
...Ideas can come from anywhere — from the customer service agent, the mailroom or the sales rep. No one has a premium on idea generation....
...Telford Homes, a London-focused residential property developer, has reported a 31 per cent uplift in full-year profit while saying the outcome of the UK’s general election will be good for business....
...Shadow Robot — which now has a £1m annual turnover and 20 staff at its offices in north London — gradually took off from there....
...Then an actor who was the father of a friend set him up with a job in the mailroom at William Morris, the talent agency where Diller’s fellow media mogul David Geffen also got his break....
...Simply calling your staff butlers doesn’t raise a hotel’s level of service, he argues....
...But in the end, money and skilled staff will be found....
...Berkeley, which draws 40 per cent of buyers from abroad, up from around 20 per cent three years ago, said it was opening a marketing suite in Hong Kong with four staff this month as it seeks to capitalise...
...It will rank second only to Walmart in staff numbers for a private sector employer....
...Mr Emanuel was raised in Chicago in a family of high achievers: his brother, Rahm, was President Barack Obama’s first chief of staff and is now mayor of Chicago; his other brother, Ezekiel, is an oncologist...
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