Pandemic

We’ve already come a long way from the non-stop Zoom calls and shirt-and-pyjama bottom outfits that defined the pandemic era. However, one of the best outcomes of this peculiar time has been the change in workplace culture and our shifting…

However moving into the new world of work, leadership teams must strike a clever balance. Whilst we must not let old hierarchies or inefficiency creep in and it is essential that executive teams move forward, embracing new ways of working.…

IWG revealed its system-wide revenue grew 22.3% to £1.3 billion in the first half of the year, up from £1 billion a year earlier. Underlying earnings increased significantly to total £122.9 million, up from £5.4 million in 2021 when…

Established in 2020 under the CAREs Act, the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) is a refundable tax credit designed to enable employers to keep their employees on the payroll during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, various myths and…

It is not just the number of working hours and the scale of the problems that is exhausting leaders and upending any sense of work/life balance. It is the volume of change and uncertainty that they are processing. The human brain isn’t a…

Professor Sophie Hennekam from Audencia Business School takes a look at 5 common remote work challenges and offers solutions. The pandemic has resulted in an upsurge of remote working. With most people unable to go to work during the…

Lucy Minton, COO and co-founder of Kitt, discusses the changing design priorities of business leaders as workers return to the office. Office occupancy has reached its highest since the pandemic began. As the return continues to…

The sudden and rapid onset of COVID-19 severely tested organisations’ business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. With no time for downtime, businesses had to show their real-time ability to implement these strategies in a…

When you look across different industries there have been some winners, some losers, and everything in between, but when you look at human beings – the people that make up those workplaces, there is barely anyone unaffected. Personal and…

In the US, inflation is near a 40-year high. If business pricing teams found the pandemic and supply chain issues the most difficult period of their careers, then the constant news influx of sharply rising prices must be cause for concern.…

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a significant percentage of the working population has moved to remote working. Although the worst of the pandemic has been and gone, there are still huge numbers of employees who have elected to…

Over 3,000 employees at 60 UK companies will trial a four-day working week, in what is considered to be the largest pilot scheme of its kind. The scheme will run from June to December and will involve employees from a diverse range of…