An industry roadshow has heard that businesses need to address the positive and negative aspects of social networking in the workplace.

Employees should be careful when using social networking sites to build business relationships as fraudsters can use personal details posted online.

Savings schemes for employees such as Isas and pensions should be more straightforward to encourage greater participation, an expert has suggested.

Cycle to work schemes could receive extra publicity next week with the launch of National Bicycle Week.

Businesses can save money and recruit from a wider area by allowing homeworking as part of flexible benefits packages, an expert has said.

Pensions will have to adapt and become more flexible in order to meet employees'' needs, an expert has predicted.

Staff at Heathrow airport are being encouraged to cycle to work as BAA has agreed a deal with Halfords

A new report has urged the government to overhaul the benefits given to working families in order to limit the UK''s expanding population.

Social networking at work is becoming increasingly normalised, especially among recent graduates integrating into the workplace.

Many staff in the UK feel overworked and fail to take a lunch break, which should serve as a warning to businesses, according to one expert.