Exclusive: How’s that for a perk? Jefferies buys staff Peloton bikes as lockdown bonus March 22, 2021 Employees at Jefferies, the global investment bank, are set to pedal their way out of lockdown – after the firm gifted staff Peloton bikes as a thank you for their recent work. Analysts and associates received an email from senior staff on Friday. UK staff will be able to select from a Peloton bike – [...]
The City View with Totaljobs CEO Jon Wilson March 7, 2021 In this episode of The City View, Andy Silvester talks about Rishi Sunak’s budget and the week to come with former BBC Business correspondent Susannah Streeter, before he’s joined by Totaljobs CEO Jon Wilson. Andy and Jon discuss a new report which heralds good news for the capital, the world of recruiting in the middle [...]
Editorial: Long-term growth worryingly absent in a tax-hiking, business-battering Budget March 3, 2021 Tax hikes are one thing – but more concerning are the pedestrian growth numbers that seem to be the new normal for the British economy Conservative Chancellors do not, as a general rule, batter big business or ordinary Brits with tax hikes. But these are not normal times, and batter both Rishi Sunak certainly has. [...]
A catch-up strategy? How Government can give young Brits a boost in Budget 2021 February 26, 2021 A catch-up strategy? How Government can give young Brits a boost in Budget 2021
Exclusive: Jefferies drops mooted ‘no jab, no entry’ policy for office return February 25, 2021 Global investment bank Jefferies has dropped plans to require staff to receive a vaccine before returning to the office, City A.M. can reveal. An all-staff memo, sent at the start of the month, said that “verification of vaccination will be required to access the office” once work-from-home restrictions were lifted across the globe. But a [...]
Vaccine success study means jabs should be the only ‘test’ for UK unlocking February 22, 2021 Ah, Bonnie Scotland. You’re almost forgiven for the Six Nations. A new study of the entire Scottish population released this morning presents the best news of the year so far. Long story short, the risk of hospitalisation as a result of Covid-19, four weeks after a vaccine dose, falls by either 85 per cent (Pfizer) [...]
The Government risks undermining the vaccine strategy with endless speculation and a charge towards Covid-Zero February 16, 2021 Boris Johnson is an optimist – a feature that has not always served him well throughout this pandemic. The litany of slipping timelines in 2020, from school openings to the First World War ‘over by Christmas’ tribute act, hasn’t given the public great confidence in Government announcements. But, with a vaccine being rolled out at [...]
Bill Browder: Navalny has sparked something – the West shouldn’t stand by January 31, 2021 Once the largest foreign investor in Russia through his Hermitage Fund, Bill Browder is now a global campaigner focussing the world’s attention on Vladimir Putin. His efforts have seen so-called ‘Magnitsky Acts’ placed on the statute book across the world, named after Browder’s former lawyer – who, most agree, was murdered in Russian custody as [...]
How schools, teachers and parents are responding to new challenges January 22, 2021 Though there is light at the end of the tunnel, all of us are still going through a stressful time in this second full national lockdown. In particular, it’s tough for parents and school-age children – with schools closed, millions of people across the country are having to change the way they live their lives [...]
Nathan Law: I’m not entitled to lose hope in Hong Kong’s struggle January 17, 2021 City A.M. Editor Andy Silvester talks to Nathan Law, a pro-democracy activist from Hong Kong and one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people on the planet – discussing the territory’s battle against repression, Beijing’s war on free expression and the need for a global solution to authoritarianism Nathan Law should not be in London [...]
