Paypal adds support for new currencies and countries

Paypal has recently expanded their services to include 10 new currencies and 48 new user countries.

The new Paypal supported currencies include the Czech Koruna, Danish Krone, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, New Zealand Dollar, Norwegian Krone, Polish Zloty, Singapore Dollar, Swedish Krona, and Swiss Franc.

Residents in 48 new markets will now be able to use PayPal to send money online. New markets include Indonesia, the Philippines, Croatia, Fiji, Vietnam and Jordan.

The complete list of countries can be seen here.

This is great news for businesses who sell internationally and use Paypal as a mechanism to get paid for products and services.

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Maternity and Adoption Leave

If the expected birth of a child is after 2007, all women, regardless of length of service, will qualify for full maternity leave. This includes 39 weeks of statuory maternity pay. They will also be allowed to work for up to 10 “keeping in touch” days during maternity leave. This also applies to adoption leave.

Recommnded Jana Action: Revise your internal maternity / adoption leave policy

Smoking ban

A comprehensive ban on smoking inside virtually every enclosed workplace will occur from summer 2007.  It is best to prepare for this now, advising staff, providing information packs, and advice on where to go to help stop smoking

Information and Consultation

From April 6th 2007 UK businesses with more than 100 employees are required to have formal “information and consultation” arrangements if more than 10% of employees request this.

We recommend pro-actively setting up a consultation forum or at least being prepared. IT can compliment this in setting up an online forum board which can be managed by a forum administrator. We work with open source software to enable this and provide training sessions before handing this off to be managed in-house. Please contact us for more details

Google Mail (GMAIL) Problems

Online Mail is increasingly being used as a means of emails storage, with Google one of the 100 pound Gorilla’s of this space.  However, Gmail users are complaining that their emails and archives are disappearing without their intervention.

Morale of the story…..always backup any information that is vaulable to you on a regular basis, be it webmail or online documentation that is archived or even Databases that are being used on a shared host.

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So…how many Sales days left in 2007…..

A sobering thought for those of us who make our living in sales – it certainly provides motiviation and has already been printed out and is on the wall of the Jana Office !

http://www.justsell.com/content/tools/salesdaycalendar-2007-2.pdf

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