Purplebricks to open new office in Soho after remote hiring spree July 6, 2021 Purplebricks will open a new office in Soho in response to pandemic-led changes that saw the online estate agent hire more people from across the country. The new office, located in London’s West End, will eventually house between 40 and 50 staff who will work on a hybrid basis, spending some time at the office [...]
How to make a hybrid workforce work for you July 6, 2021 Should your team be working from home or in the office? Or a mix of locations? Hopefully the answer to this question will – very soon – be able to be determined solely by an organisation of its own accord rather than because of a need to follow Covid-19 guidelines. But even before the pandemic, [...]
John Lewis and Waitrose to introduce flexible working for head office staff July 5, 2021 Bosses at John Lewis and Waitrose have confirmed they will introduce flexible working for all staff based at the company’s head offices. The announcement by the employee-owned retailer came after Boris Johnson confirmed plans to lift most lockdown restrictions on 19 July, including an end to the government’s work from home guidance. “If restrictions are [...]
UK management consultancy industry smashes forecasts with £12bn revenue July 5, 2021 The UK’s management consultancy industry has grown at double the rate expected for this year, with revenue hitting £12bn, according to the industry’s representative body. The report by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA) found exports have doubled, despite working from home orders across the UK. “The global attractiveness of the UK consulting sector, the second biggest in [...]
London should be the go-to city for green finance as Britain takes on COP26 July 5, 2021 It’s just over four months to go until the UN Climate Change Conference – better known as COP26 – takes place in Glasgow, and few will deny we are at a pivotal moment for our planet, and for the future of finance. With this in mind, we recently held the second of our hybrid Green [...]
Back to adland: What London’s creatives think about the return to the office July 3, 2021 With the final easing of lockdown restrictions on the horizon, attention is turning to the eventual return to the office and a new era of flexible working. Major banks such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have all begun bringing staff back into the office, while UBS has said it will embrace a [...]
Lockdown sparks more leave and paid benefits for some working parents July 2, 2021 Lockdown sparks more leave and paid benefits for some working parents
Asda adopts permanent hybrid working for office staff July 2, 2021 Staff at Asda head offices will be able to choose where they work on a permanent basis even Covid restrictions are eased and working from home guidance is dropped. The change means around 4,000 staff, most of whom are based in Leeds, will be able to work more flexibly on a permanent basis. Asda said [...]
Financial services have an incredible power to improve social mobility – but it’s been left behind in ‘levelling up’ July 2, 2021 Levelling up has become the watchword for Boris Johnson’s political agenda. It has been used as an umbrella term for investment across the country where growth has traditionally been slower than that in the South East and London. Its focus, however, has overwhelmingly been for sectors such as manufacturing. We have seen dozens of pictures [...]
Dixons Carphone posts £4.9bn UK revenue, buoyed by ‘explosion’ of gaming June 30, 2021 Dixons Carphone has posted a £4.9bn revenue from electricals in the UK and Ireland today, as it reaped the benefits of the pandemic-induced tech boom. Its revenue climbed eight per cent in the UK in the year to 1 May, up from £4.5bn the year before, the group said in its audited annual results this [...]