Fifth of workers paid less than recommended living wage October 30, 2016 A fifth (22 per cent) of workers in Britain earn less than the amount deemed to be a living wage, according to research out today. The study, carried out by Markit on behalf of KPMG, discovered that some 5.6m workers are paid less than the £8.25 per hour, or the £9.40 per hour in London, recommended by the [...]
Sir John Parker’s diversity review wants all-white FTSE 100 boards to end by 2021 October 29, 2016 2021 will be the year all-white boards at FTSE 100 firms are over. At least if Sir John Parker has his way. According to Sky News, the findings from Sir John Parker's review into diversity on boards will be unveiled in a government-backed report next week. The report will state that Britain's biggest firms should have [...]
As the clocks go back, now is the time to reboot your sleep October 29, 2016 The City is on the verge of a sleeplessness epidemic. Every week we work with top London business professionals who are permanently rundown and operating on empty due to neglecting their sleep. Whether this is because they are negotiating unmanageable workloads, their ambition, or their inability to switch off their phone (recent research by Deloitte revealed [...]
Trump and Brexit have done businesses a big favour October 28, 2016 It's hard to admit, but Donald Trump and Brexit may have done us a favour. By bringing to a juddering end nearly a decade of denial, these devastating aftershocks of the 2008 financial crash destroy any lingering illusion of a return to business as usual. In the public mind, it is business as usual and that’s [...]
Forcing working mothers out of jobs is costing British businesses £280m a year October 27, 2016 British businesses are losing hundreds of millions of pounds every year as a result of women being forced out of jobs after having a baby. According to a study by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), businesses are losing nearly £280m a year, largely due [...]
Here are eight mistakes you really don’t want to make in an interview October 27, 2016 Ever wondered if you're not getting a job because you dropped a clanger in an interview? Or if the recruitment process in general never seems to go all that smoothly for you? Fear not; CV-Library has polled 1,200 workers across the UK to rake over their painful past mistakes so you can avoid following in [...]
Why you’ll be spending more time on training courses next year October 27, 2016 Workers could find themselves grabbing their notepad and setting their out of office for a day's training more regularly next year, research out today suggests. Nearly two-fifths (39 per cent) of financial executives are planning to spend more on staff development next year, as Robert Half Financial Services also found training and development investment will increase by a fifth [...]
£3bn student economy is key to attracting future investment October 27, 2016 | City Talk In considering what drives modern economies and shapes the best and most successful cities, Richard Florida now advocates ‘quality of place’ as the benchmark to replace quality of life. As one of the leading theorists on modern life, and author of several books about the 'creative class', his opinion counts. Investors are already used to [...]
Q&A: What makes Britain’s family businesses tick? October 27, 2016 Family businesses are rarely mentioned in the debate about how best to support Britain’s smaller companies, and yet they make up a sizeable proportion of SMEs. According to the Institute for Family Business (IFB), of the 4.6m family-owned firms in the UK, 99.6 per cent are small. To find out more, we spoke with professor [...]
SAS: Who Dares Wins star Jason “Foxy” Fox gives his survival guide to the war at work October 27, 2016 "Who Dares Wins” has long been our motto in the SAS, and for much of our history, that one pithy statement has made for an apt summary of how we operate in the field of combat. Although not comparable to the thick of war, the same can be said for business: if you dare, you win. [...]