Gloomy Monday

My train was on time, I got a seat and I arrived at work feeling quite chipper. Sat down, opened my e-mail and there it was: a press release from a consultancy called Hay Group letting me know that the year ahead will be colder, poorer and quite possibly short staffed.

The summary: 30 per cent of organisations it surveyed globally will or are considering freezing base salaries while 20 per cent plan to freeze or reduce headcount in the near future.

The next e-mail in the queue was from a company offering advice on how to see redundancy as a good thing. (Why worry about updating your CV or calculating how many months' rent your savings will cover when you could be looking for a new path to self-fulfillment?)

And, as a colleague just pointed out, the price of a coffee from our local cafe has gone up 12p.

So, how secure do you feel in your job? And what are you going to do about it?