Saturday Sitdown: In five years remote working will ‘just be work’, says digitally-native brands guru March 12, 2022 As the city begins to ramp up again and offices swing open their doors the debate rolls on – how many days should people return to the office? Should this be mandatory or flexible? Will the days be set or of a person’s choosing? Employers and employees find themselves at loggerheads when it comes to [...]
A cruise fit for Greta as Hurtigruten gets sustainable: ‘Our goal is zero emissions!’ March 11, 2022 Expedition cruise experts Hurtigruten is putting its ships through one of Europe’s largest ever sustainability pushes. New high-tech gear is being installed across its seven Coastal Express cruise ships – cutting CO2 emissions by 25% and Nitrogen oxide emissions by as much as 80%. Hedda Felin, CEO of Hurtigruten cruises Norway, said “This is the largest [...]
IWG bets on hybrid work in £270m investment as it trims down losses March 8, 2022 IWG has merged with a digital assets group to create a new workspace platform in a £270m investment, after it more than halved its operating losses last year. The Instant Group, which provides digital marketing and workspace solutions to nearly half of FTSE 100 firms, will invest a further £50m into the company, IWG announced [...]
Londoners pay the price as Khan and No10 stay on the carousel of fights over TfL funding March 7, 2022 A FEW weeks ago, after months of wrangling, Transport for London and the Department for Transport finally agreed a slightly longer term short-term funding deal for the network. After a series of deals lasting a week or two at a time, this one runs until June. We don’t know what’s going to happen in June [...]
A third of mid-market firms were whacked by hacker outages in 2021 March 7, 2022 New research has revealed that one in three mid-market firms suffered from a hacker induced outage in 2021. According to a report by cyber firm Censornet, one in five companies were forced to pay hackers to deactivate ransomware, with the average pay-out hitting £144,000, and seven per cent handing out more than £500,000. “For the [...]
London faces logistics space crunch as e-commerce firms take over city March 4, 2022 London would run out of available industrial space within five months, should the current take-up rate continue, amid an e-commerce boom. The capital and the South East are facing running out of industrial and logistics spaces, according to a report published today by London First, in partnership with CBRE. It comes as the pandemic has [...]
Supporting your employees with their mental health in 2022 March 3, 2022 In the UK an estimated 91 million workdays are lost every year due to mental health problems and the ongoing pandemic has unfortunately been a catalyst in increasing stress and anxiety. Our pioneering mental initiative This is Me aims to change attitudes towards mental health in the workplace by reducing stigma, dispelling myths and raising [...]
2021: An exceptional year for EMEA M&A March 1, 2022 EMEA M&A markets went into overdrive in 2021, spurred by a number of factors, resulting in an exceptional year for dealmakers.
Take your workspace to the next level in Whitechapel February 25, 2022 As we tentatively return to something approaching ‘normal’ following the pandemic, many businesses find themselves in a tricky situation. Working from home full-time is gladly receding into the rear-view mirror but the old, static office model now seems a little antiquated. Modern workers require the flexibility of hybrid working, and office spaces need to be [...]
Buyers’ demand for Bath hots up after Netflix series Bridgerton February 23, 2022 Demand for homes in cathedral cities has been hotting up among overseas buyers, with house-hunters enticed by the Netflix series Bridgerton. According to data from estate agent Winkworth, demand and prices for cathedral cities are 20 per cent higher than other locations. For the city of Bath, where the Regency era romance series Bridgerton was [...]