Businesses plan long-term return to office despite home working boom October 5, 2020 Most businesses will resume using their offices after the coronavirus crisis, despite a shift towards home working, according to a survey of company directors. The research found that 74 per cent of directors said they would keep increased home working arrangements, and half said they would reduce their long-term use of the office following the [...]
Record number of companies turn out for City Giving Day 2020 September 23, 2020 A record number of organisations took part in this year’s City Giving Day as companies gathered online in spite of the pandemic to celebrate the City of London’s philanthropic side. Over 460 companies registered for this year’s event, which raised money for charities such as Place2Be, Onside Youth Zones, Samaritans and The Duke of Edinburgh’s [...]
Two-thirds of companies say home working has hit employee motivation September 21, 2020 Two-thirds of UK companies believe the motivation and enthusiasm of employees have suffered as a result of remote working during the Covid-19 crisis, according to a new survey. A survey of more than 1,500 firms occupying offices found office working outranked home working for creativity and innovation, as well as productivity and motivation. Roughly 64 [...]
London’s startup scene is under threat – here’s how we can safeguard our entrepreneurs September 10, 2020 Following one of the biggest economic upheavals in living memory, London is now resetting itself. But our capital’s startups have taken a bruising in the last few months and their recovery requires urgent action. The impact has not been uniform, as some investment is still flowing. But investors have been backing portfolio companies, or in [...]
Office design experts lead London’s return to the office September 9, 2020 Returning to work in the nation’s capital could mean economic revival, but businesses wonder whether it can be done safely: design and build experts prove that it can. If the 1918 Flu Pandemic is anything to go by, much about Coronavirus could conceivably remain a mystery more than 100 years into the future. One thing [...]
Staff at ETF provider Tabula call time on home working as it moves to Strand August 27, 2020 London headquartered fixed income ETF provider Tabula Investment Management is luring employees back to work with an expanded office to support social distancing. Tabula’s move to 55 Strand will double its office footprint from 1,300 square feet to more than 3,000 sq ft. The fund manager says more than 90% of London-based staff have agreed to [...]
Matt Hancock: There’s one big reason it’s safe to return to the office August 19, 2020 UK workers have no reason to avoid returning to their offices this autumn, as there is little chance of catching coronavirus in the workplace, health secretary Matt Hancock said today. Instead Brits are largely transmitting coronavirus when households meet one another in their homes, Hancock told the BBC. When asked if Britain would follow France [...]
Face masks to be mandatory in French workplaces August 18, 2020 It will be compulsory to wear face masks in most French workplaces from 1 September, a government official has confirmed. The new rules will likely be implemented in shared indoor workspaces, such as offices and factories, as the country’s coronavirus rate continues to increase. The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals in France remains low, [...]
Nottingham – where the living and working is easy August 5, 2020 “Nottingham is an easy city, easy to do business, easy to find talent and we’ve been able to grow our business here easily” said Halli Bjornsson, Co-Founder and CEO at Lockwood Publishing, creators of the hit 3D virtual world Avakin Life which has 500,000 Daily Active Users. Many more who live, work and run gaming [...]
For young Londoners, working from home is a cramped and dismal experience August 5, 2020 Ah the great British work from home experiment: levelling the playing field, redressing work-life balance, enabling millions of people to work when and where best suits them. After a brief period of chaos at the end of March when the nation struggled to get to grips with Zoom and Amazon sold out of laptop stands, [...]