DEBATE: Will long-term remote working jeopardise London’s status as a global financial centre? July 23, 2020 Will long-term remote working jeopardise London’s status as a global financial centre? Giles Fuchs, chief executive of Office Space in Town, says YES. An enduring shift towards remote working and away from the office in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic would spell disaster for London’s status as a global financial hub. Home to 1.1m [...]
Career versus motherhood: When workplaces don’t support women, the result is a fertility crisis July 22, 2020 You’d think that a global crash in fertility rates, which will see the world’s population fall dramatically by the end of the century, might be music to the ears of any sustainability professional. Lower populations, after all, equal lower environmental impacts. Yet dig a bit deeper into the research published last week by University of [...]
Britain deserves a New Deal — with platform workers and digital rights front and centre July 22, 2020 Crises tend to reshape and transform how we work — and Covid-19 is no different. From the extraordinary rise in home working and the reorganisation of physically distanced workplaces, to the sharp rise in unemployment and the existential threat now facing many sectors, the consequences to life and work will long outlast the pandemic itself. [...]
DEBATE: With one in three of us wanting to keep working from home, is it too soon to urge Londoners back to the office? July 21, 2020 With one in three of us wanting to keep working from home, is it too soon to urge Londoners back to the office? Ben Kelly, a commentator for Reaction, says YES. For months we were told to stay at home and hide from the deadly virus. Unfortunately — for the government and our economy — [...]
DEBATE: Is employee experience with IT the key factor for a productive post-pandemic workforce? July 17, 2020 Is employee experience with IT the key factor for a productive post-pandemic workforce? Pedro Bados, chief executive and co-founder of Nexthink, says YES. Employees’ working experiences have historically been measured through three key elements: people, place, and technology. Recent months have turned this dynamic on its head. With workers across the country sent home from [...]
Experience you can count on: Older workers are an untapped pool of business talent July 17, 2020 Businesses of all sizes across the UK are grappling with how to emerge from the Covid lockdown, re-engage with their customers and suppliers, and — for many in more adversely impacted sectors — sadly how to make parts of their workforce redundant. Job cuts have obviously been a major concern, as evidenced by the chancellor’s [...]
Your career break is an asset, not a hindrance, to your job application July 16, 2020 | Sponsored Returning to the corporate world after a long break can be challenging at the best of times. You might have spent the last couple of years flexing your creative muscles, running a startup, or travelling the world. Whatever your reason for leaving – and whatever your reason for coming back – it can feel like you [...]
Is the office an analogue product in a digital world? July 15, 2020 | City Talk Reports of the death of the office are premature, but change is coming as Covid-19 means more of us will work from home in the future. The Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a catalyst, accelerating a number of global trends. One of the most significant of these is working from home, a trend which is [...]
Thinking differently to build a better business July 14, 2020 | City Talk As lockdown eases and business life begins to return to some kind of normality, the challenge for mid-market finance directors is to reflect on the new ways of working, introduced to help overcome the virus and cope with lockdown, and build on them to work differently in the future to enhance finance operations, manage costs [...]
Finding the best way to incentivise management July 14, 2020 | City Talk With cash at a premium, businesses could be considering an award of shares to employees instead of bonuses. This could be a good way to incentivise key employees in the long term without utilising cash and perhaps a first step towards unlocking liquidity for owners through, for example, a management buy-out. However, with share values [...]