IRELAND has one of the highest rates of employee disaffection in the world, according to a study of workplace conflict.

Half of the country's senior Human Resource managers have said they expect their workforces to decline this year, according to a survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, which represents more than 6,000 training professionals in Ireland.

Experts have today stated that there is no need for the current level of scaremongering surrounding jobs in the construction industry.

SOME businesses have succumbed to the basic instinct of cutting personnel development budgets in the current economic climate, a national personnel conference has heard.