Coronavirus lockdowns turn UK’s Mindful Chef profitable June 15, 2021 The healthy recipe box service has been a pandemic winner, with locked-down customers driving sales up threefold to £53m last year. Mindful Chef today reported it is profitable for the first time, with 2020 sales figures up 230 per cent on 2019, buoyed by the pandemic shift to online food delivery. Customers for the Nestle [...]
Staff crisis in hospitality: Act now or risk being the next France June 15, 2021 The hospitality sector is in the midst of a staff crisis. We always knew that staffing would be a challenge with full reopening post-Covid, that not everybody would return to work after furlough. Many of our French and Italian staff went back home during lockdown and had decided not to return to the UK or [...]
Morgan Stanley boss: Eating out? Then you can come in to the office June 15, 2021 Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman sent a strong message to staff in the US who are reluctant to return to their desks, saying, “If you can go into a restaurant in New York City, you can come into the office.” “By Labor Day, I’ll be very disappointed if people haven’t found their way into [...]
Michael Gove says only ‘unprecedented and remarkable’ Covid-19 change would delay 19 July ‘terminus date’ June 15, 2021 Michael Gove said 19 July is the absolute “terminus date” for ending England’s remaining coronavirus restrictions, and only an “unprecedented and remarkable” change would push it back further. The Cabinet Office minister’s comments came the morning after Boris Johnson announced a delay of four weeks to so-called “Freedom Day”, the fourth and final step of [...]
Wimbledon tennis finals to be played with capacity crowds June 14, 2021 Capacity crowds will be allowed into the Centre Court stadium to watch the finals of the Wimbledon tennis championships, which begin on 28 June. Both the men’s and women’s singles finals will be played in front of 15,000 fans, the All England Tennis club announced tonight, the first outdoor events to take place with a [...]
London calls for more support for businesses as ‘Freedom day’ pushed back June 14, 2021 London’s businesses and politicians have called for more financial support after Boris Johnson delayed the end of the Covid-19 restrictions for four weeks. Speaking at a press conference this evening, the Prime Minister said that 19 July was the new “terminus” date for the restrictions. However, despite advance calls from various sectors for extra support, [...]
Freedom day pushed back to 19 July as Johnson asks for ‘a little more time’ for jab programme June 14, 2021 England’s “Freedom Day” has been pushed back nearly six weeks until 19 July, Boris Johnson has confirmed tonight, as cases of the so-called Delta variant of Covid-19 continue to rise. The decision will be reviewed every day, and after two weeks the government will decide whether to go ahead with reopening sooner than now anticipated. [...]
Countries crack down on UK travellers amid Indian variant fears June 14, 2021 The Netherlands and Abu Dhabi have introduced coronavirus quarantine restrictions for UK travellers, as Italy and Ireland mull new restrictions. The Netherlands announced on Saturday that UK travellers will face mandatory quarantine measures from tomorrow. The Dutch Ministry of Health said “this is because of the worrying Delta variant of the coronavirus variant that is [...]
‘Last in, first out’ fears: Covid-19 hits career progression as people ‘shelter’ in current jobs June 14, 2021 Job vacancies are surging but almost one in two candidates are “sheltering” in their current job since the onset of the pandemic, new research today suggests. LinkedIn’s latest survey found that 77 per cent of recruiters say candidates currently seem less committed to moving roles, for fear they could be “last in, first out” elsewhere. [...]
Worth the commute: 9 out of 10 want hybrid working paired with an improved office June 14, 2021 Nine out of ten UK workers want the option to work remotely once offices reopen, while the same proportion desire a better office set-up when they do go in, new research today suggests. Data from OpenSensors, a workplace technology company, shows that a similar proportion of workers (90.5 per cent) are being offered the option [...]