London loves Thursday! 3.3m use Tube in return to (co-working) office – and the pub March 24, 2023 Thursday is now the most popular day for London workers to head into the office – with over 3.3m jumping on the tube to join colleagues for after work drinks. According to the latest ridership from TFL and WeWork shared exclusively with City A.M, Thursday is now the most popular weekday to travel on the [...]
Home Office reprimanded after sensitive documents left at London venue October 7, 2022 The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a formal reprimand to the Home Office, after sensitive documents were found at a London venue. The documents, which were handed by venue staff to police in September 2021, included two Extremism Analysis Unit Home Office reports and a Counter Terrorism Policing report. The Extremism Analysis Unit analyses ideologies [...]
New Look looks to slash 70 jobs at London and Weymouth head offices in further shift to digital March 21, 2023 High street retailer New Look has put 70 job roles at its head offices in London and Weymouth at risk of redundancy. According to reports first published in Drapers, the move is understood to be part of a wider examination of the business and could impact several departments across the locations. It’s understood that employees [...]
Exclusive: WeWork introduces discounts to drive office workers back into London September 8, 2022 Flexible workspace provider WeWork has launched new incentives for London businesses to entice workers back into the city. The New York-headquartered company is working with BusinessLDN, with members of the advocacy group being offered access to new discounts. Businesses are able to access 50 per cent off WeWork’s All Access monthly membership fees for three [...]
Is London rebounding better than New York? That’s what the numbers say. October 30, 2023 New York is trailing behind London across various key economic indicators, including employment and commercial real estate performance.
London police officers found guilty of sharing ‘grossly offensive’ WhatsApp messages September 21, 2022 Two police officers have been found guilty of sending grossly offensive messages on a WhatsApp group. PC Jonathon Cobban, 35, and former officer Joel Borders, 45, were each found guilty by City of London Magistrates’ Court today and will be sentenced on 2 November at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime [...]
Law firms drive demand for London’s ‘super-prime’ office space March 29, 2022 Law firms are driving demand for “super-prime” office space in Central London, amid fierce competition to recruit and retain legal talent. Law firms took up more than a quarter (27 per cent) of all office space in the City of London last year, according to figures from Knight Frank. Intense competition between law firms to [...]
London’s largest law firm DLA Piper closes Russian offices March 15, 2022 The City of London’s biggest law firm by revenue, DLA Piper, is set to close its Moscow and St Petersburg offices, as law firms from across the globe continue to pile out of Russia. In a statement, DLA Piper said it will transfer its Russian business to the UK, in line with the “legal and [...]
Cluttons swaps West End for Square Mile with new London HQ in Cannon Street August 25, 2023 Property consultancy Cluttons has moved its London office headquarters from the West End to the City. The estate agent has taken a 10-year lease at Yarnwicke on Cannon Street and will occupy 8,551 sq ft of space. It comes as Cluttons said it has experienced a period of “sustained growth” having hired a number of [...]
8 Bishopsgate: Reinsurance firm buys 50,000 sq ft of new City of London tower January 14, 2024 One of the City’s newest skyscrapers, 8 Bishopsgate, is filling up with new tenants as a reinsurance firm has taken up two-and-a-half floors. SCOR will occupy 50,000 square feet of the new tower in the heart of the Square Mile, which is 51-storeys, 204-metre tall, and the 10th largest in the capital. The reinsurance provider [...]