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High Inflation Is Bad for UK Productivity – BoE’s Mann
Date: September 2, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s very high inflation risks distracting businesses from the longer-term decisions needed to boost ailing productivity, Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said in a podcast released on Thursday. Mann repeatedly called for half-point increases in the BoE’s main interest rate before a majority of the Monetary Policy Committee backed one last...
Why Remote Work Doesn’t Have to Feel Disconnected
Date: August 25, 2022
By Jeremy Campbell, people and business transformation expert, and CEO of Black Isle Group Most of us will never go back to the way we worked before the pandemic. Now flexibility rules. However, across the banking and finance sector many leaders are fretting over how sustainable this is in their results-driven world. Before Covid-19, our...
Global Remote Talent: An International Solution to Local Labour Shortages
Date: August 8, 2022
By Pieter Manden, Head of Trust & Employer Compliance at WorkMotion As the number of job vacancies hit an all-time high in the UK, with ONS data showing there are more job vacancies than unemployed people in the UK for the first time since records began, traditional recruiting methods simply aren’t enough. In the past...
Why Companies Must Invest in Digital Employee Experience for Business Success
Date: July 22, 2022
By Jason Coari, VP Product Marketing & Strategy, Lakeside Software If you’re not focusing on the digital employee experience (DEX), you are failing your company and staff. Lower productivity, employee frustration, and resignations are all symptoms of technology failings that lead to a lackluster digital employee experience. DEX describes the quality of a workforce’s daily interactions...
Brexit Will Cost UK Workers 470 Pounds a Year, Study Predicts
Date: June 22, 2022
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is becoming a more closed economy due to Brexit, with damaging long-term implications for productivity and wages which will leave the average worker 470 pounds ($577) a year poorer by the end of the decade, a study forecast on Wednesday. The report was written by London School of...
How ‘deep Work’ Can Bring the Best Out of Your Hybrid Workforce
Date: June 17, 2022
By Alicia Navarro, Founder and CEO of FLOWN The ‘new normal’ of remote working comes with benefits to both staff and businesses – the promise of a better work/life balance for employees, and savings on office costs for their employers. But it also brings a host of challenges. Employees working alone at home can become...