With AI, ‘everything is under review’ at London-based tech firm IFS Tech Enterprise software firm IFS, valued at €15bn (£12.64bn), is doubling down on industrial AI as it pushes toward an ambitious $100bn target by 2029. With a sharp focus on asset-heavy sectors like energy and telecoms, the firm is re-engineering its entire model around automation. At a recent IFS connect UKI event, chief executive Mark Moffat [...]
Gymshark puts 300 jobs at risk despite record sales Retail Gymshark has put almost 300 jobs at risk despite reporting record sales for its latest financial year this week. The Solihull-headquartered company, which was co-founded by self-made billionaire Ben Francis, has entered into a consultation with 296 employees, almost a third of the total workforce. The news, first reported by Drapers, came on the same [...]
April’s cost hikes are ‘a step too far’ for the UK’s independent businesses Retail Independent retailers have warned of job losses and cuts to staff hours due to rising business costs set to come in this April. Shops pointed to the ‘double whammy’ of increases to national insurance contributions (NICs) and the minimum wage. “As responsible employers we want to ensure we are paying a fair wage to our [...]
Sky to overhaul call centres and cut around 2,000 jobs March 27, 2025 Sky has announced plans to shake up its call centres in a move which will see around 2,000 jobs put at risk of being lost. The media company, which is owned by US media giant Comcast, is looking to close three of its ten call centre sites. Its locations in Stockport, Sheffield and central Leeds [...]
HSBC investment bankers axed on bonus day received no bonus March 27, 2025 HSBC issued no bonuses to axed investment bankers, despite letting them go on the day they were set to learn their pay award figures. The FTSE giant told staff in its investment arm last month that they were facing the chop after the firm announced in January it would wind down mergers and acquisitions advisory [...]
British Steel: thousands of jobs at risk after £500m subsidy rejected March 27, 2025 Thousands of jobs have been put at risk after British Steel announced plans to significantly reduce operations at its Scunthorpe steelworks. Up to 2,700 employees are expected to be impacted by the move which would see the closure of two blast furnaces and steelmaking operations as well as a reduction of steel rolling mill capacity [...]
Santander to shut 95 branches – putting 750 jobs at risk March 19, 2025 Santander announced a flurry of branch closures on Wednesday, which will place up to 750 employees at risk of redundancy. The bank, which is one of the UK’s most prominent mortgage lenders, will close 95 of its 444 branches as part of a structural overhaul that will begin in June 2025. Its updated branches network [...]
Lloyds places thousands of jobs under review in tech overhaul February 7, 2025 Lloyds Banking Group has placed thousands of jobs in its IT division under review as the lender races to beef up its engineering teams and modernise its digital banking offer, City AM can reveal. The FTSE 100 bank told some 6,000 tech and engineering staff on Wednesday that their jobs may be at risk of [...]
Daily Mail announces further round of job cuts January 31, 2025 The owner of the Daily Mail has told staff to expect another round of redundancies as it finalises its overhaul to make the outlet operate as one seven-day operation across online and print. In a letter to the news outlet’s employees on Thursday co-authored by the Daily Mail’s editor-in-chief, Ted Verity, and the chief executive [...]
John Lewis has ‘no plans’ to cut more jobs September 1, 2024 John Lewis has branded claims it is planning to cut more jobs and restructure its management team as "wholly inaccurate".