More than a quarter of investment bankers say work is damaging their health in ‘disturbing’ review findings April 2, 2019 More than a quarter of investment bankers said their work was damaging their health as the “disturbing” findings of a survey revealed efforts to improve workplace culture have stalled. The Banking Standards Board have raised concerns today over the wellbeing of bank employees in its latest annual review. The survey of more than 72,000 employees from [...]
Weekly Grill: Nieves Barragan, the chef at Sabor, tells us why the best feasts are to be found in Madrid in winter January 8, 2019 Sabor chef Nieves Barragan on why Madrid in the winter is the best place on earth to eat Who are you and what do you do? Nieves Barragan, executive chef director at Sabor. What’s Sabor? It’s a journey through Spain from our bar, to the counter and upstairs to the Asador. The Asador itself is [...]
Trisara hotel review: Foraging needn’t be at the expense of luxury July 24, 2019 Foraging is all the rage but, despite its fashionable foodie status, it does rather bring to mind getting grubby at the bottom of the garden, thrashing around with a set of secateurs, or simply pretending to be a badger. Surely there’s a more glamorous way to liven up lunch? So, off to Trisara in Thailand [...]
DEBATE: Will the UK’s strong employment landscape be able to withstand the shock of a no-deal Brexit? March 20, 2019 Will the UK’s strong employment landscape be able to withstand the shock of a no-deal Brexit? Lee Biggins, founder and chief executive of CV-Library, says YES. While there’s no guarantee that the jobs boom will last if we came crashing out of the EU, the labour market has stood strong in the face of uncertainty [...]
This Father’s Day, give the dads in your office a real gift June 13, 2019 A shirt with the word “legend” plastered across the front? A trio of “bad boy” chili sauces? A customisable BBQ branding iron? Father’s Day really is an object exercise in gifting tat. Such tokens are inconsequential and ephemeral – destined for a cluttered kitchen drawer. Better to get dads something they actually want. Simply, more [...]
Your road map to the Isa universe: Make the most of your tax-free allowance March 10, 2020 There are just 27 days to go before the tax year ends on 5 April. For savers and investors, that means there are only a few weeks left to make use of their Individual Savings Account (Isa) allowance. Introduced in 1999, Isas allow people to invest up to £20,000 into savings each tax year, and [...]
Veganuary: Fast food chain Leon says over half of all meals are now vegan February 1, 2019 Vegans swamped fast food chain Leon this month as it sold over a fifth more plant-based meals in January. Vegan meals made up over half of all sales in Leon stores across the country, the restaurant said today. Read more: It's the end of Veganuary, but food retailers need to support vegans all year round and [...]
StatusToday, a startup tracking employees with AI, backed by Brent Hoberman’s Firstminute Capital, Saul Klein’s LocalGlobe and Notion Capital February 21, 2018 A startup using artificial intelligence to track employees and improve their productivity has raised fresh cash from top investors, including lastminute.com entrepreneur Brent Hoberman. StatusToday has landed $3.9m (£2.8m) from the serial entrepreneur and investor’s newly launched venture capital firm Firstminute Capital, along with Transferwise and Citymapper backer LocalGlobe and Notion Capital. Read more: This [...]
Feeling peckish? You can now get a Just Eat takeaway delivered by a robot December 1, 2016 The robots are coming. But wait, only to deliver your takeaway. Just Eat has teamed up with Starships Technologies to deliver its first takeaway meal by a robot. It follows five months of "exhaustive testing" in Greenwich, and the pilot programme will see local customers in the area received automated deliveries So fear not if [...]
Editor’s Notes: Harmony is in short supply in the EU as challenges loom large May 10, 2019 Faced with some major non-Brexit challenges of their own, the leaders of the EU27 and the heads of the EU’s powerful institutions are meeting in Sibiu, Romania for a summit. What’s emerged so far is the Sibiu Declaration, a beautifully vague and vacuous document committing the EU to a range of platitudinous positions such as: [...]