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Are we still in recession? Are we out of recession, after 15 months? The truth is that no one seems to know. The government are telling us one thing and certain specialist organisations are saying that we have at least another 12 months in front of us. No matter what the truth is, the fact is that it is going to take quite some time before workplaces recover from the hardest hitting recession since records began.

The majority of managers believe that pay freezes, increased workloads and pressure and the loss of work colleagues to compulsory redundancy mean that employee morale is at an all time low. At a time like this, leadership and employee relations are key, but a lack of managers and quality training mean that these are set to be particularly testing times for all of us.