Ballon d’Or: Bellingham wins football award but Ronaldo doesn’t October 30, 2023 The Ballon d’Or has long been seen as the leading Oscar award of the football world, with the world’s greatest male and female player crowned every year in Paris. Here are all of the award winners from the star-studded ceremony in Paris. Kopa Trophy – young player Handed out to the golden boy of football, [...]
Euan Blair’s Multiverse quietly shelves school-leaver mission as growing pains set in October 25, 2023 Euan Blair’s educational technology firm Multiverse has quietly shelved its mission of getting school leavers into jobs in a restructuring which former employees claim has created a “cut-throat” culture of “fear” at the firm, City A.M. can reveal.
Hybrid losing its grip as more workers return to the office October 23, 2023 More workers are returning to the office for the first time since the pandemic, in a sign that hybrid working may be on the way out, according to a new survey. A total of 43 per cent of workers have now returned to the office, while 39 per cent of workers are maintaining a hybrid [...]
Santa’s every little helpers: Tesco to recruit 30,000 festive staff October 13, 2023 Britain’s biggest supermarket, Tesco, is the latest retailer to launch a massive Christmas recruitment drive, as it looks for 30,000 staff. The grocery giant said it was appealing to cash-strapped Brits, ranging from students and families, hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis, to those who stepped away from work during the pandemic and want to [...]
De La Rue: British banknote maker lifts profit expectations as currency demand recovers October 6, 2023 British banknote maker De La Rue has bumped up its profit expectations for the first half of the year after it reported seeing signs of recovery in its currency business. The Basingstoke-based firm said it now expects adjusted operating profit to be “marginally ahead of previous guidance” given in June. Shares in the company, which [...]
Office politics September 29, 2023 Tim Oldman, boss of the workplace consultancy Leesman, tells Andy Silvester the results of our grand hybrid working experiment are still very much in flux Tim Oldman, as befits a man who runs a workplace consultancy, is asked as much as you’d expect about the impact of hybrid working on employees and the economy. Those [...]
Tower Hamlets bin strike branded ‘health hazard’ brought to an end September 26, 2023 A Tower Hamlets bin strike branded a “health hazard” has been brought to an end after workers reached an agreement with the council. Refuse had piled up for days in the east London borough , with furious residents slamming the state of the streets as “ridiculous”, a “health hazard” and an “ongoing rat buffet”. But [...]
City of London: how Square Mile workers put in the most hours September 25, 2023 Workers in the City of London are putting in the most hours in the capital and the country, with almost a third working more than 49 hours, according to a new survey. And that proportion of City people working long hours is three times the average for England — 31.9 per cent in the Square [...]
Airbus to expand UK workforce by 10 per cent in vote of confidence for aviation September 25, 2023 Airbus has announced plans to create another 1,100 jobs, in "a huge vote of confidence" for the UK economy.
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