Leading indicators for your human resources (HR) function. The majority of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) understand the importance of HR. CEOs expect their HR leaders and the HR function to achieve the basics well, but have little interest in the administrative,...
The UK doesn’t have enough houses, so the Government promised we would build some more. What are the challenges? Most new houses are built by a small number of large developer. They need somewhere to build, permission to build and then labour and materials to...
Calls to return to office working are coming more frequently, most recently from Sadiq Khan who is concerned about paying for London’s infrastructure and from Donald Trump who said of home workers that ‘most of the time they are not working’. Is the...
DeepSeek, a Chinese startup, has released two large language models that rival the power of the dominant tools but, it says, were developed at a fraction of the cost. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes cheaper, requiring fewer and smaller data centres that use...
Since Brexit completed in January 2020 and the global lockdown of March 2020, executives throughout the UK have faced an ever-changing trading and working environment. Some could not have envisaged the scale of the advantages, while others experienced quite the...
The exodus of workers during Covid and the record high numbers of economically inactive have contributed to the UK’s 1.26 million vacancies and an understandable perception that the employment market is now employee-led. The increased demand for voluntary home...
