BRITISH AT WORK

SUGIHARTO

HOMY ODY

HARY NURIZMA

NOFI OKTAFIYA

The one thing the English will never forgive the Germans for is working too hard

George Mikes

Political Union in The United Kingdom of Great Britain

The United Kingdom of Great Britain that came into being on 1 May 1707 was

political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.

After The Political Union in The United Kingdom of Great Britain

Over the next three centuries, The United Kingdom developed as one of the world’s leading economies,

Between 1870 and the end of 20th century

Commonwealth politics

Queen Elizabeth II is the head of commonwealth. The commonwealth of

Nations is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states (2009). All but two of these countries were formerly part of

the British Empire.

Faces of Business

The Fastest growing business in UK are Services industries hotels, restaurants, travel, shopping, and computer and financial services.

A “Round the clock” Service

The usual working day in Britain starts at 9 a.m. and finishes at 5 p.m. most people work a five-day week. But now many companies

want to give their customers a “round-the-clock” service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

British Working Intensity

The British working week is, on average the longest of any country in Europe. In 1998 a new law was made. Workers do not have to work more than average of 48 hours a week if they don’t want to. But 22% of British workers do work more than a 48-hours a week.

British Working Intensity

In most Western European countries, working time is gradually decreasing. The European Union’s working time directive imposes a 48 hour maximum working week that applies to every members expect the United Kingdom.

British Working Intensity

About 45% of British workers are women, but many them are part time jobs.

About 44% of women work part time.

Only 9% of men work part time.

About 16% of men self employed.

About 7% of women self-employed.

British Working Intensity

There are about 3.7 million business in UK. Many of these are large companies. About 3.000 British businesses employ more than 500 people. Of the top of 500 European companies, about 150 are British.

The Tea Break

Frequent tea break are bane of office productivity. One strange custom requires you to ask everyone around whether they’d like tea or coffee whenever you go to get some for your self. Often people will try and wait each other out so that they can avoid this chore.

Meetings

Generally a meeting schedule for one hour always lasts one hour. The objective of meeting are spelled out the onset and the communication is so clear and simple that the discussion hardly ever meanders.

ECONOMY

The UK is fourth largest economy in the world, with a gross domestic product (GDP) of US $1.93 trillion. It has second largest economy in Europe after Germany.

Britain main industries today are :

Banking and finance

Steel

Transport equipment

Oil and gas

Machine tools

Electric power equipment

Automation equipment

Railroad equipment

Etc

Farming (Agriculture) industry products are :

Cereals

Oilseed

Potatoes

Vegetables

Cattle

Sheep

Poultry

Fish

In energy industry are :

Coal

Natural gas and

Oil reserves

Primary energy production accounts for 10% for GDP.

Who is the richest in Britain

The top 20

1. Lakshmi Mittal and family, steel, £22,450 million, up 108 per cent.

2. Roman Abramovich, oil and Industry, £7,400 million, up six per cent.

3. Duke of Westminster, property £6,750 million, up four per cent.

4. Emesto and Kirsty Bertarelli, pharmaceuticals £5,950 million up 19 per cent.

5. David and Simons Reuben, property and internet, £5,532 million, up 121 per cent.

Who is the richest in Britain

6. Alisher Usmanov, steel and mines, £4,700 million up 213 per cent.

7. Galen and George Weston and family, retailing, £4,500 million, up 400 per cent.

8. Charlene and Michel de Carvalho, inheritance, brewing, banking, £4,400 million, up 49 percent.

9. Sir Philip and Lady Green, £4,105 million, up 7 per cent.

10. Anil Agarwal, mining, £4,100 million, up 583 per cent.

Who is the richest in Britain

11. Hans Rausing and family, packaging, £4,000 million, unchanged

12. Joseph Lau, property, £3,825 million (new entry)

13. Kristen and Jorn Rausing, inheritance and investment, £3,500, up 40 per cent

14. Vladimir Kim, mining £3,160, up 480 per cent.

15. Leonard Blavatnik, industry £3,000 million (new entry)

Who is the richest in Britain

16. John Fredriksen, shipping £2,750 million, up 10 per cent.

17. Joe Lewis, foreign exchange and investment £2,700 million, up 7 per cent.

18. Sir Richard Branson, transport, internet and mobile telephones, £2,600 million up 117 per cent.

19. Earl Cadogan and family, property £2,300 million, up 15 per cent.

20. Alan Parker, duty-free shoping, £2,074 million, up 15 per cent.

Cooping, J. (2010). Sunday Times Rich List 2010: Britain’s richest see wealth rise by one third. www.telegraph.co.uk [retrieved on 22/08/10]

The City of London

The Centres of Commerce Index covers 75 cities, ranking them on a range of factors including legal systems, political and economic stability, and ease of doing business.

New York came second, Tokyo was third, Singapore fourth and Chicago fifth. The two north American cities in the top 10 were New York and Chicago. The top European cities after London were Madrid, up 16 to 11 globally and from six to five in Europe, and Amsterdam fourth in Europe.

What Kind business people do in the city

Banking and Insurance. Banks were place where people kept their money. Insurance companies started because Britain had a lot of ship-owner.

There are about six hundred banks in the city. The so called “big four” like banks the National Wesminster bank, Barclays Bank, Midland Bank, The Bank Scotland also has a very large number of branches. So does the trustee Savings (TSB)

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