Different sectors are embracing the new work culture to various degrees, with financial services firms like Grant Thornton encouraging more days at the office to ensure training of recruits, while for telecoms firms flexibility is standard
An excerpt from Titanic: True Stories of her Passengers, Crew and Legacy by Nicola Pierce explores three locations notable to the Irish links to the Titanic.
Morgan Kelly
The Irish economy has periodically been held up as an example that other countries can learn from, but the lessons to be learned have varied over time. Depending on the period, it has served as a model to be followed or a sobering lesson in failure. In 1988
The Economist dubbed it “the poorest of the rich”; by 1997 the same magazine was hailing it as “Europe’s shining light”. In the run-up to the Great Recession the country was “a poster-child for what not to do”; by 2013 it was “setting standards” for how to recover (
The Economist 2015, Roche et al. 2016: 1).