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Lack of diversity in job ads will hinder recruitment success post-Covid

Lack of diversity in job ads will hinder recruitment success post-Covid

26 July 2021 With vacancy numbers spiking in the UK, online talent sourcing specialist, Talent.com, has warned employers that a lack o..

FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND KEY MANAGERS LEVELLED WITH ALMOST £200m FINES SINCE 2020

FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND KEY MANAGERS LEVELLED WITH ALMOST £200m FINES SINCE 2020

New research shows financial services directors & officers were hit with fines totalling just over £196m between 2020 – 2021 Seve..

Veritone Launches MARVEL.ai, a Complete End-to-End Voice-as-a-Service Solution, to Create and Monetise Hyper-Realistic Synthetic Voice Content at Commercial Scale

Veritone Launches MARVEL.ai, a Complete End-to-End Voice-as-a-Service Solution, to Create and Monetise Hyper-Realistic Synthetic Voice Content at Commercial Scale

Veritone MARVEL.ai creates new and immediate revenue opportunities for media companies, brands and celebrities, while reducing time an..

Why Equipment Assets Should Be The Source of Your Customer Strategy

Why Equipment Assets Should Be The Source of Your Customer Strategy

While industry 4.0 technologies played a decisive role in the pandemic response at many companies, COVID-19 has also exposed frailties..

Freedom Day: but what to do about isolation?

Freedom Day: but what to do about isolation?

By Nick Gold, MD, Speakers Corner July 19th has seen England become free from lockdown restrictions as the summer holidays begin. Busi..

How digitised customer journeys are replacing the long sales lunch

How digitised customer journeys are replacing the long sales lunch

By Stuart Templeton, Head of UK at Slack   We may have held fewer long client lunches and spent less time traveling to meet new p..

Why SEO is crucial for business success post-pandemic

Why SEO is crucial for business success post-pandemic

By Annabel Mulliner from Little Seed Group While having a digital presence was already becoming increasingly crucial for businesses of..

How to make hybrid working successful

How to make hybrid working successful

By Michele Don Durbin, Evernote’s SVP of Marketing Many teams are moving to a hybrid working environment, a model that combines remote..

Five ways businesses can prepare themselves for the digital economy – Be Kaler Pilgrim

Five ways businesses can prepare themselves for the digital economy – Be Kaler Pilgrim

We’ve all seen what happens to businesses who are slow to adapt to the digital-first economy. Take, for instance, Topshop – a br..

SoftBank sells 45 million shares in Uber – source

SoftBank sells 45 million shares in Uber – source

(Corrects SoftBank’s ticker symbol in paragraph 1) By Echo Wang (Reuters) -SoftBank is selling about 45 million of its shares in..

Facebook’s slowdown warning hangs over strong ad sales, while Zuckerberg talks ‘metaverse’

Facebook’s slowdown warning hangs over strong ad sales, while Zuckerberg talks ‘metaverse’

By Elizabeth Culliford and Nivedita Balu (Reuters) -Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it expects revenue growth to “decelerate sign..

Focus on remote-first: why businesses need to flex their flexibility credentials

Focus on remote-first: why businesses need to flex their flexibility credentials

By: Callum Adamson, CEO, Distributed From casual Fridays to watercooler moments, the office has been the centre of the business world,..

From Start-up to Middle Size – what are the lessons?

From Start-up to Middle Size – what are the lessons?

By Arnon Shiboleth, Co-CEO, Prytek Based on new statistics gathered in 2020, despite many success stories, the fact is that more than ..

Business Communications in the new normal

Business Communications in the new normal

By Simon Roderick, Managing Director, Fram Search, a specialist financial services recruitment firm (www.framexec.com) Th..

Who are called Women Entrepreneurs?

Who are called Women Entrepreneurs?

Michelle Hope is a ‘Women Entrepreneur’ as her role is vital to the beauty industry, with her being the first women ..

Top Tell-Tale Signs of a Toxic Workplace and How to Tackle the Problem

Top Tell-Tale Signs of a Toxic Workplace and How to Tackle the Problem

More employees are speaking out about toxic or hostile workplace environments, and the act of ‘outing’ companies has becom..

5 ways supply chain leaders could save the jobs market

5 ways supply chain leaders could save the jobs market

Unemployment levels are increasingly rapidly, but if you’re a supply chain leader, you could be the solution. Here, Craig Powell..

How responsible leaders are making their companies more sustainable

How responsible leaders are making their companies more sustainable

Yan Vermeulen, Partner and Head of the Global Chemical & Process Industries Practice at Odgers Berndtson, explains how responsible..

7 Factors to Consider Before Your Business Moves to a Subscription Model

7 Factors to Consider Before Your Business Moves to a Subscription Model

By Jim Martindale, CEO, Navint  Never has the adage, “The best customer is the one we already have” been truer than it in today’s digi..

Getting your head around workplace conflict

Getting your head around workplace conflict

Anna Shields is co-founder and Director of Consensio, a specialist workplace mediation and conflict management provider. With Acas rep..

How citizen development can help businesses close the digital skills gap

How citizen development can help businesses close the digital skills gap

Sundara Sukavanam, Chief Digital Officer, Firstsource   Digital transformation and skills will be crucial for the UK’s economic recove..

Is the Finance Industry Headed for a Mental Health Crisis?

Is the Finance Industry Headed for a Mental Health Crisis?

By Mike Coates, Managing Director at Commercial Expert The finance industry has been under pressure to ‘modernise’ since way before th..

Aston Martin’s first SUV helps push up sales by more than 200%

Aston Martin’s first SUV helps push up sales by more than 200%

LONDON (Reuters) – Carmaker Aston Martin reported on Wednesday a 224% increase in sales to its dealers, boosted by its first spo..

Aston Martin’s first SUV helps push up sales by more than 200%

Aston Martin’s first SUV helps push up sales by more than 200%

LONDON (Reuters) – Carmaker Aston Martin reported on Wednesday a 224% increase in sales to its dealers, boosted by its first spo..

How to get the most out of your peer-to-peer support group

How to get the most out of your peer-to-peer support group

By: Kevin Brent- director of BizSmart Peer-to-peer business support has never been more important than during the current times of unc..

Overcoming the challenges of reduced business travel

Overcoming the challenges of reduced business travel

By Iain Masson RVP UK & Nordics at Showpad While the UK is opening up and we’re eagerly awaiting the resumption of international t..

Discussing the impact of COVID-19 on CSR

Discussing the impact of COVID-19 on CSR

By Andrew Jones, Head of Everyday Essentials, Express Vending Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a common measurement of how wel..

Top Ten Tips: Maintaining company culture in remote team

Top Ten Tips: Maintaining company culture in remote team

Back in the day when offices were a thing, ‘company culture’ and staff relationships were often built and solidified around communal b..

Back to work 2021: What we’ll miss from our WFH lives

Back to work 2021: What we’ll miss from our WFH lives

Being able to go back to work has meant that most of us have had to retire our comfy work outfits. We’ll also have to stop singing lou..

Why identifying your brand’s super-fans is crucial to business success

Why identifying your brand’s super-fans is crucial to business success

Have you ever wondered what kind of superpower you would get if you could? Invisibility? The power to fly? What about a marketing supe..

Culture Clash – Is a difference in mentality holding Europe back in the world of business?

Culture Clash – Is a difference in mentality holding Europe back in the world of business?

By Rami Cassis, Founder and CEO of Parabellum Investments  The US and Chinese tech giants dominate when it comes to the world’s bigges..

7 steps to managing stress as workplaces reopen post-COVID

7 steps to managing stress as workplaces reopen post-COVID

With 73% of workers admitting they fear a return to the workplace could pose a risk to their personal health and safety, David McCorma..

FleishmanHillard Authenticity Gap Study Reveals Brands are Failing on Nearly Half of What Consumers Expect of Them

FleishmanHillard Authenticity Gap Study Reveals Brands are Failing on Nearly Half of What Consumers Expect of Them

Authenticity Research Across Five Markets and 300 Companies Shows the Need for Brands to Close the Gap Between What They Promise and H..

Six Apple devices that will transform your work from home productivity

Six Apple devices that will transform your work from home productivity

By: Michel van den Berg, General Manager EMEIA, Jamf  The technology employees use whether working from home or from anywhere, plays a..

Notification overload and urgent demands from bosses damaging employee productivity

Notification overload and urgent demands from bosses damaging employee productivity

68% say too many distractions and notifications holding them back from being more productive 54% are expected to work outside working ..

A Farewell to the 9 to 5 Office Workday

A Farewell to the 9 to 5 Office Workday

How automated tools are empowering HR professionals and a new hybrid approach to work   By: Albert Rees, SVP and Head of Business Cons..

Burnout cases tripled since before the pandemic – here’s how to beat it

Burnout cases tripled since before the pandemic – here’s how to beat it

Burnout is a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. Fitness, wellness and nutrition expert Penny Weston (https://welco..