What To Do If You’re Worried AI Will Take Your Job May 9, 2023 | Sponsored Are you worried you’ll be replaced (professionally at least) by a robot in the near future? If so, you’re not alone. Thanks to the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, chatbots and their capabilities to not only mimic human behaviour and thought processes, but in some instances, surpass them, have been swiftly propelled into sharp focus. At [...]
Brits yank record £4.8bn from banks after Credit Suisse and SVB failures May 4, 2023 Brits yanked a record amount of cash out of banks in March, sparked by concerns over the health of the global financial system following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Credit Suisse, official figures out today reveal. Household deposits at UK banks shrunk £4.8bn in March, the highest monthly fall since the Bank [...]
Women Want Equal Progression Opportunities At Work May 2, 2023 | Sponsored Does the company you work for promote women at the same rate it promotes male counterparts? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re among the minority. That’s because women still only make up 30% of leadership roles in the UK. This is despite an active push by the government to highlight this issue via the FTSE [...]
UK retail giant set to ditch central London office space amid job losses May 1, 2023 John Lewis is looking to cut its office space by over 50 per cent after the company seeks to drastically cut costs benefiting from a loose hybrid working approach. The John Lewis Partnership, which also owns Waitrose, first announced its plans to move offices last year, waiting until the lease of its current Victoria HQ [...]
CBI to be renamed in bid to rebuild after sexual misconduct scandal, new boss says April 27, 2023 The new boss of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said that the scandal-hit business lobby group would likely be renamed as the organisation looks to rebuild after a sexual misconduct scandal. In the last week, there has been a mass exodus of businesses from the CBI, including prominent groups such as John Lewis, [...]
Most businesses say hiring is inefficient – that needs to change April 26, 2023 | Sponsored The UK labour market is at an interesting juncture. After a ferocious post-Covid jobs boom that sent demand for workers into overdrive, we’re now seeing signs that employers have taken their foot off the hiring pedal. That’s not to say demand has dried up. Far from it. Britain still has more than 1.1m vacancies according [...]
How your firm can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals April 24, 2023 | Sponsored The United Nations unveiled the Sustainable Develop Goals as a roadmap to a greener, fairer future – but that plan is in danger of losing its way. “Our progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has faltered and even gone into reverse on some important targets,” warned UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed in March. Companies [...]
Would You Become A Salary Nomad For More Money? April 24, 2023 | Sponsored Coronavirus changed many things for many people, and the way that we work was perhaps the most impacted. And the digital nomad, an employment trend that had previously been slightly scornfully reserved for a type of gig economy worker, became a legitimate alternative to the traditional 9-5. While the term has been in use since [...]
Women in Payments Europe 2023 Unites Industry Trailblazers in London April 20, 2023 | Sponsored City A.M. is excited to announce that it will be a media partner for Women in Payments Symposium 2023. This year our symposium is taking place in London – Europe’s major fintech hub and a great place to host a major payments event for good reasons. As a leading global financial centre, the UK capital [...]
Guided Buying: A Solution to Cut Costs, Mitigate Risks and Enhance ESG Standards April 19, 2023 | Sponsored Keeping a close eye on competition, enhancing your client offering, all the while managing to invest in innovation, has never been more important. With customers’ purse strings a good bit tighter, and rising inflation impacting the costs of business operations, running a tight ship and keeping up best practice is vital for companies to maintain [...]
