Author Archives: Alun Rees

So you can be pregnant and sacked….

From the Lexology newsletter. Can a pregnant employee be fairly dismissed if their employer does not know they are pregnant? The story starts: Ms Thompson had been employed just over a month, and was still in her probationary period, when she found out she was pregnant. She experienced pains and was admitted to hospital but didContinue reading “So you can be pregnant and sacked….”

Nobody told me how good the next 25 years would be.

When Susan was pregnant we heard lots of congratulations, but they were mostly tempered with warnings of sleepless nights, how our lives were over and now the fun would end. We waited for the tantrums of the terrible twos, the mood swings and challenges of teenage years and the destruction of our lives as heContinue reading “Nobody told me how good the next 25 years would be.”

Could amazon.co.uk be your new sundries suplier?

Serving more than 1 million customers in the U.S., Amazon Business is changing the way dentists think about purchasing dental supplies. Amazon Business has been offering healthcare products, including dental supplies, since its launch. More than 40,000 results currently populate for professional dental supplies on Amazon Business from companies like 3M, Hu-Friedy, Premier Dental, Dentsply,Continue reading “Could amazon.co.uk be your new sundries suplier?”

Rees’s Reads #1 – Setting The Table by Danny Meyer

Setting The Table – The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business This book should be compulsory reading for everyone who works in any business that serves customers face to face. I believe it is essential for any dentist looking to differentiate themselves – especially from corporate practices. Danny Meyer is a restauranteur. The CEO ofContinue reading “Rees’s Reads #1 – Setting The Table by Danny Meyer”

The Saw Doctors on Aussie ball tampering.

I cry easily, I’m a sentimental fool sometimes,I don’t have a problem with that, I don’t think it’s a weakness in others – most of the time. The fall out from “whatever-you-wanna-call-it-gate” around the events in the third (cricket) Test match between South Africa and Australia last weekend rumbles on. Time was you would believeContinue reading “The Saw Doctors on Aussie ball tampering.”

Why the Outrage?…another opinion

“Just as environmentalists demand that the fossil fuel industry ‘leave it in the ground,’ the ultimate demand to be levelled at Silicon Valley should be ‘leave it in our heads.’ The real villain here is an expansionary economic logic that insists on inspecting ever more of our thoughts, feelings and relationships.” William Davies writing onContinue reading “Why the Outrage?…another opinion”

There’s a distinction between the social internet and social media.

Cal Newport‘s Latest Blogpost On Social Media and Its Discontents “The social internet describes the general ways in which the global communication network and open protocols known as “the internet” enable good things like connecting people, spreading information, and supporting expression and activism. Social media, by contrast, describes the attempt to privatize these capabilities byContinue reading “There’s a distinction between the social internet and social media.”