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We wanted to update you on the goings on in our wonderful world of recruitment!

We have decided to keep up with the times and join Twitter, create a Facebook group (Ambient Jobs - Facebook Group) and get with the flow of things, it has been an interesting week for all concerned and we are learning as we go along, however, now that we have spread our wings and joined the twitter flight we are managing to get in touch with the candidates who need jobs now!

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A sample of some of the recent job activity we have had this week:
Marine Electronic Engineers for Morocco
Ruby on Rails developer in Barcelona
Senior Administrator in Gib
Danish Native Customer services
Hotel Billings and Booking people
Revenue analyst in Madrid

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Unemployment in Spain

Published: 27 March 2009

Author: The SUR Newspaper Spain

Fear of unemployment makes workers less prone to go off sick

The crisis has sent job absenteeism figures down to their lowest in the last five years - Doctors claim there are fewer fraudulent cases

The economic downturn has given workers, who until recently felt relatively safe in their jobs, a new fear that they too could end up among the growing ranks of the unemployed. This is evident from the significant decrease (of more than eight per cent) in job absenteeism figures in the province of Malaga. Last year the number of cases of sick leave registered with the Seguridad Social fell from 9,086 to to 8,319, the lowest figure in the last five years.

The rising unemployment figures are making workers value their jobs more highly and think twice about calling in sick. “It’s clear now that employees don’t want to give their bosses any reason to pick them over anyone else if it comes to staff cuts. José Antonio Cardenete, the President of the Malaga Association of Occupational Health, claims that company doctors have been noticing the drop in sick leave cases for some months now. “It’s not that people are in better health, it’s because fewer workers are taking sick leave when they are not genuinely ill”, he explains. “The typical absentee who used to ‘throw a sickie’ once a month is now thinking twice about it with the threat of unemployment looming”, continues the doctor, whose thousands of patients form part of the workforce of a large department store. Some experts estimate that in recent years around 30 per cent of cases of sick leave have not been genuine.

Cardenete adds that the most common health reasons for taking time off work are respiratory illness, such as colds or flu, and back problems, followed by depression, anxiety or stress. Another company doctor, Salvador Román, points out that workers on sick leave are going back to their desks sooner than before. The average length of time for this type of absence has gone from “between three and seven days to just one or two days; about half”, he calculates. The figures have also been influenced by a campaign launched by the Health Department at the end of last year in an attempt to reduce job absenteeism. Doctors were given instructions to double check cases of sick leave to make sure that they were not going on for longer than necessary.