Private investors gear up for £2.4bn London office spending spree February 2, 2023 Private investors and ultra-high net worth individuals are expected to snap up London office assets worth £2.4bn this year, a figure which has jumped by 60 per cent in the past 12 months. According to research published by real estate agency Knight Frank, the cash rich investment group is expected to be in a strong [...]
How to be successful starting out as a remote worker February 2, 2023 | Sponsored Remember your first day at work? Keen to meet new people, eager to learn. In previous decades, working life was more predictable, and newcomers would learn their profession or trade on-the-job, alongside more experienced colleagues. By contrast, work today can be a lonely affair. Navigating your own career is more hazardous – jobs are more fragmented, [...]
Could you help provide care to the vulnerable? February 2, 2023 | Sponsored Adult social care is one of the most rewarding jobs you can do – one that sees you play a key role in making life better for those who need it the most. Could you be the next person to join the caring profession – and make a difference every single day? The social care [...]
Airbus and Qatar settle A350 jetliner row February 1, 2023 Airbus and Qatar Airways have settled a dispute over surface damage on grounded A350 jets, the companies said today, averting a potentially damaging UK court trial. The “amicable settlement” ends a $2bn row over the safety of Europe’s premier long-haul jet – an unprecedented public rift that had led Airbus to revoke dozens of other [...]
Nuclear Waste Disposal could create thousands of jobs February 1, 2023 | Sponsored Building a geologically safe nuclear waste site deep underground along with the Government’s planned creation of small modular nuclear reactors across the UK could mean thousands of new jobs over the next 25 years whilst ensuring the UK’s future energy needs. That’s according to Corhyn Parr, the woman responsible for the UK’s nuclear waste disposal programme. Ms [...]
Majority of businesses in favour of increased support for asylum seekers wanting to work February 1, 2023 A large majority of UK businesses are in favour of allowing asylum seekers to work after waiting at least six months for their claims to be processed, new figures from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have revealed. The report, ‘From Harm to Home’, finds nearly 70 per cent of UK business ‘decision makers’ believe the [...]
Strength in numbers, when we look and sound the same, we tend to also think the same January 31, 2023 | Sponsored Consensus is great for comfort (familiarity). However, be it legacy (group) thinking in an industry sector, or the blind spots that often come from being the incumbent, consensus is most definitely not great for voicing change, surfacing new ideas, driving innovation. Rory Sutherland talks about this from a Behaviour Psychology viewpoint. In the transport sector [...]
Hospitality braces for £100m in lost sales ahead of biggest day of strikes in over a decade January 30, 2023 Retail and hospitality figures have described strike action set to take place on Wednesday as “damaging” to the sector and “entirely avoidable”. Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality told City A.M. she estimates union strikes this week will set the sector back a further £100m in lost sales, with “much of that impact being felt [...]
Caffe Nero shrugs off inflation as Brits’ coffee habits drive sales of £150m January 30, 2023 Caffe Nero generated UK sales of £150m for the first half of the financial year, averaging 104 per cent of pre-pandemic levels and an increase of 17 per cent for the same period in 2021. The coffee chain added Deliveroo and Just Eat to its delivery partner service last year, which it said helped secure [...]
London asking rents hit record high with fierce competition set to persist into 2023 January 27, 2023 Average asking rents in London have hit a record £2,480 per month amid fierce competition for properties in the capital, according to property website Rightmove. The average asking rent in London jumped 15 per cent annually to reach £2,480 at the end of last year, while asking rents in inner London climbed even higher to [...]
