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 [...]
Henderson share price falls and blames Brexit vote for July’s retail exodus October 27, 2016 Henderson said that its retail investors scampered for covered following this summer's Brexit vote, with large numbers of withdrawals from its funds during July. Reporting on its third quarter performance, the asset manager said that retail outflows totalled £1bn, of which 70 per cent of them occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote. Shares in [...]
£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 [...]
What the new government should do to pensions: Scrap the £1m lifetime allowance and nudge young people to save more October 27, 2016 Philip Hammond has a lot on his plate. As the Autumn Statement approaches, shielding the UK economy from Brexit’s slings and arrows will be higher up his agenda than fiddling with a pensions system which was tinkered with year after year under the last government. Some of the changes (many at the exit end of [...]
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 [...]
Time to remortgage? The rates on two-year fixed deals are very low, but watch out for additional fees October 27, 2016 Brexit has been kind to mortgage holders. As the Bank of England’s interest rate has come down, banks have been able to borrow more cheaply, allowing competition to increase and mortgage rates to fall. Borrowers have been quick to take advantage of the deals on offer; in August, the number of people remortgaging hit a [...]
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. [...]
Leading the charge: How to invest in the nascent, but lucrative, electric power storage sector October 27, 2016 One word captures the holy grail for the energy industry: storage. A Carbon Trust report from March found that better energy storage could save £2.4bn a year by 2030 in the UK. If certain regulatory hurdles are overcome, this could rise to £7bn a year. New developments and innovations are coming to market all the [...]
