Monthly Archives: August 2016

Workplace productivity under the spotlight with new trade collaboration

The businesses were all involved in the UK Futures Programme, an £8.8 million co-investment programme between public and private sectors to address workplace productivity. Businesses, universities, local authorities and other partners collaborated in 32 projects to address skills and productivity problems and make improvements to how businesses are run. The projects were based around a
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Business failure: Four in ten small companies don’t make it five years

Information and communication-based businesses and retailers have the highest new business survival rates after one year, but for longer-term survival, businesses in the health and education sectors fare the best, according to a study by Ormsby Street. These are the only two sectors in which more than half of businesses launched were still trading after five
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