Staff members are satisfied working at Western overall, but the Staff Council isn’t satisfied with satisfaction survey results. A staff satisfaction survey was conducted by the council in April 2008. There were 508 employees who participated, Council Chairwoman Angela Robertson said.

A time to talk: Sadly, prejudice is still prevalent even today (Peninsula Gateway)
With the presidential election drawing near, a slew of opinion polls and surveys have been taken to determine who will vote for which candidate.

Peter Vansittart: Influential figure in English literary life who brought an air of seriousness to the historical novel (Independent)
By the time of his death, Peter Vansittart belonged to a practically exclusive literary category: the defiantly highbrow novelist who, sustained by a private income and supportive publishers, writes more or less to please himself. Such qualifications are usually a guarantee of direst obscurity. Certainly, none of Vansittart’s 40-odd books sold more than a few thousand copies or even went into …

Bank statement after emergency rate cut (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The Bank of England released the following statement on Wednesday after an emergency rate cut to 4.5 percent:

Adding vacation time to a business trip (CNN)
If you’ve got to be there for work anyway, why not live it up?

SA employees are exhausted and bored, says online survey (Independent Online)
South African employees are exhausted and somewhat bored - even as they put in overtime that they probably will not be paid for.