All Posts

Why Grief Awareness Must be a Priority Year-Round Dominic Grinstead, CEO of MetLife UK

Why Grief Awareness Must be a Priority Year-Round Dominic Grinstead, CEO of MetLife UK

  National Grief Awareness Week, which takes place annually in December, aims to raise awareness of the impact of grief. This ini..

Leeds agency achieves global B Corp status

Leeds agency achieves global B Corp status

    Digital marketing agency, Search Laboratory, recognised for its impact on the environment and local community Accreditation ..

Don’t Settle for Feeling Stuck: Break Free and Move Forward With These Time-Tested Life Hacks

Don’t Settle for Feeling Stuck: Break Free and Move Forward With These Time-Tested Life Hacks

If you feel burned out, overwhelmed or frustrated, you’re not alone. Between 75 and 80 percent of people feel “stuck” in at least one..

Kura partners with CheckedSafe for end-to-end passenger safety

Kura partners with CheckedSafe for end-to-end passenger safety

Kura, the UK’s largest shared transport and technology specialist, has partnered with CheckedSafe, the leading vehicle compliance and..

Avoid a chaotic Christmas, sort your Self Assessment tax return as soon as possible

Avoid a chaotic Christmas, sort your Self Assessment tax return as soon as possible

Lee Murphy, managing director at The Accountancy Partnership, said “Christmas is one of the few times of year where business slows do..

Negative Emotional Contagion: How to Stop the Spread

Negative Emotional Contagion: How to Stop the Spread

A smile is contagious but so are toxic negative emotions such as pessimism, cynicism, depression, fear, hate, panic, anxiety and susp..

The Family Meeting Planner Helps Parents Lead With Intention

The Family Meeting Planner Helps Parents Lead With Intention

As a father who has raised eight children (both biological and stepchildren) over the course of more than 20 years, Alex Mont-Ros has..

Face-to-face learning and development opportunities could bring more people into the office.

Face-to-face learning and development opportunities could bring more people into the office.

The legacy of Covid means that many staff are still working remotely or on a hybrid basis; with 72% of office workers saying that acc..

PRESSURES ON RETENTION AS BUSINESSES ENTER 2023, ACCORDING TO VISTAGE QUARTERLY UK SME CEO CONFIDENCE INDEX

PRESSURES ON RETENTION AS BUSINESSES ENTER 2023, ACCORDING TO VISTAGE QUARTERLY UK SME CEO CONFIDENCE INDEX

     Q4 2022 findings:   80% of business leaders are specifically analysing retention as the key people metric    81% of busines..

LEONARD CURTIS STRENGTHENS DEBT ADVISORY TEAM

LEONARD CURTIS STRENGTHENS DEBT ADVISORY TEAM

  Business solutions group Leonard Curtis has enrolled some of its most experienced and respected personnel to a new debt adviso..

Accounting and accountants can save the world

Accounting and accountants can save the world

  Nature Needs to be on the Balance Sheet if we are to Reverse Biodiversity and Climate Crisis Research paper calls for Nature t..

Who cares about copyright? Everyone should, because it impacts so many aspects of modern life

Who cares about copyright? Everyone should, because it impacts so many aspects of modern life

  By Glyn Moody Most people know about copyright, and have a vague idea how it works. But they probably assume that it is mainly ..

What does ‘good’ look like for legal sector IT security?

What does ‘good’ look like for legal sector IT security?

By John Wareing, Legal Security Consultant, Red Helix The legal sector has seen rapid digitalisation over recent years, partly driven..

UK SMEs press pause on innovation and rely on price rises ahead of 2023

UK SMEs press pause on innovation and rely on price rises ahead of 2023

  39% of SMEs have increased their prices over the past 12 months Just 13% of small/medium businesses have not yet had to make a..

Cost and fragmented data emerge as top barriers to reducing carbon footprint

Cost and fragmented data emerge as top barriers to reducing carbon footprint

And only 38% business leaders rate their decarbonisation efforts so far as very successful New European report shows that lack of me..

WorkLife responds to growing demand for mental wellbeing support with bolstered offering and two new benefits

WorkLife responds to growing demand for mental wellbeing support with bolstered offering and two new benefits

WorkLife by OpenMoney, the employee benefits platform, has partnered with ShinyMind and Wellness Cloud to help employers offer extra ..

How business pioneers are shaping the change needed for our planet

How business pioneers are shaping the change needed for our planet

  The central consequence of man-made climate change: the earth is getting warmer and warmer. As a result, among other things, si..

Top trends we can expect to see in digital finance over the next 10 years

Top trends we can expect to see in digital finance over the next 10 years

  Digital banking has become a fundamental requisite for most banks and their digitally savvy consumers. It is believed that by 2..

FSC reinvests in Spanish consumer finance specialist Ufasa

FSC reinvests in Spanish consumer finance specialist Ufasa

  – European financial services specialist signs capital increase to drive further growth – FSC Partner Martin Rauchenwald appoin..

Ciphr increases its cloud software offering on G-Cloud 13 framework

Ciphr increases its cloud software offering on G-Cloud 13 framework

People management software provider Ciphr has doubled its number of listings on the government’s public sector digital marketplace. G..

World’s first health-focused business school offers Exec Ed course on Health Innovation

World’s first health-focused business school offers Exec Ed course on Health Innovation

UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH), the world’s first business school dedicated to health, will be launching an exciting ne..

BRITS DEMAND SALARY TRANSPARENCY, AS A FIFTH OF JOB SEEKERS REFUSE TO APPLY FOR A POSITION IF THERE’S NO STATED SALARY, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH

BRITS DEMAND SALARY TRANSPARENCY, AS A FIFTH OF JOB SEEKERS REFUSE TO APPLY FOR A POSITION IF THERE’S NO STATED SALARY, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH

  With the landscape of an unprecedented labor shortage, a new nationwide poll has revealed that businesses that don’t publish salarie..

IMPRESSION ADDS TWO SENIOR HIRES TO BOLSTER ITS NEW PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING AND L&D OFFERING

IMPRESSION ADDS TWO SENIOR HIRES TO BOLSTER ITS NEW PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING AND L&D OFFERING

  Nottingham and London-based digital marketing agency, Impression has ended 2022 with the appointments of two new senior hires t..

UK Government helps IT company break into Africa with £900k UKEF support

UK Government helps IT company break into Africa with £900k UKEF support

UKEF’s guarantee has given a boost to exporting ambitions of a Stockport-based technology company   Vesper Technologies (Vespertec) ..

PowerDNS launches second generation of PowerDNS Cloud Control

PowerDNS launches second generation of PowerDNS Cloud Control

Operators can now more easily move from virtualized to cloud-native infrastructure, which is at the heart of the 5G revolution, with ..

Businessman’s warning as scammers target vulnerable online shoppers looking for appliance bargains

Businessman’s warning as scammers target vulnerable online shoppers looking for appliance bargains

A businessman who runs one of the UK’s leading appliance reuse networks has called for more to be done to protect people buying elect..

Construction firms relying on financial incentives as job applicant numbers tumble

Construction firms relying on financial incentives as job applicant numbers tumble

Skills shortages and the cost-of-living crisis have driven salaries up across construction, despite the demand for staff beginning to ..

Payroll innovation has accelerated in 2022, with expert CloudPay reporting increased demand for Instant Salary Payments

Payroll innovation has accelerated in 2022, with expert CloudPay reporting increased demand for Instant Salary Payments

The desire for standardisation, speed and cost efficiency, across global payroll and treasury systems has driven a spike in demand for..

Customer Centricity to be a Top Focus for 2023, Predicts Praxent

Customer Centricity to be a Top Focus for 2023, Predicts Praxent

  The verticalization of small business banking, a rise in customer centricity and a shift from open banking to open finance expe..

FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: WORLD LEADING COACHES, TRAINERS AND PRACTITIONERS BACK PERFORMANCE BRAND BRINGING NEW MUSCLE TO PROFESSIONAL SPORT

FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: WORLD LEADING COACHES, TRAINERS AND PRACTITIONERS BACK PERFORMANCE BRAND BRINGING NEW MUSCLE TO PROFESSIONAL SPORT

  A collection of world leading elite sport coaches and practitioners have given a resounding stamp of approval, following an exc..

Gas will remain expensive for decades – and renewables lucrative

Gas will remain expensive for decades – and renewables lucrative

The Russian supply freeze is driving up gas prices, forcing Germany to switch to LNG, more expensive liquefied natural gas. Admittedl..

Shoppers flip behaviour from 2021 as they buy more, but spend less in 2022

Shoppers flip behaviour from 2021 as they buy more, but spend less in 2022

  Voyado’s 2022 Shopping Index also revealed a strong increase in customer returns, despite an overall boost to overall purchases..

CapMan Infra invests in solar developer Skarta Energy to transform it into an independent power producer

CapMan Infra invests in solar developer Skarta Energy to transform it into an independent power producer

  CapMan Infra has agreed on a majority investment in Skarta Energy in a joint venture to be established together with its curren..

The metaverse made easy: RendezVerse launches RV360 to convert 360° photography to explorable social VR spaces

The metaverse made easy: RendezVerse launches RV360 to convert 360° photography to explorable social VR spaces

New technology allows for venues with pre-existing 360° photography of their space to upload it to the metaverse in minutes for socia..

New study reveals the best countries to work abroad from

New study reveals the best countries to work abroad from

The Netherlands, Norway and Malta are the top three countries for digital nomads Surprisingly France, Portugal and Italy don’t make ..

Entrepreneurs are facing more challenges than ever before – how can they weather the storm?

Entrepreneurs are facing more challenges than ever before – how can they weather the storm?

  From the pandemic to rising inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, businesses and entrepreneurs are facing severe challenges ..

European Equities: Towards Calmer Waters

European Equities: Towards Calmer Waters

  By: Sharon Bentley-Hamlyn Director at Aubrey Capital Management  Hurtling towards the year end after what had been..