Business activity in England continued to grow steadily in August, outstripping the rates of expansion recorded in Scotland and Wales, according to the latest Lloyds Bank Regional Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). England’s business activity index – a measure that tracks changes in the total output across the manufacturing and service sectors – registered a reading
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Brits reveal their most embarrassing spelling mistakes at work
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More than half of UK adults (56 per cent) would judge someone based on their spelling, according to new research by Oxford Open Learning Trust. The distance learning provider surveyed 2,000 UK adults, looking into the importance Brits place on spelling and accuracy and whether we feel embarrassed by our mistakes. The results finds that
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A lifetime of loans: Reality cheque hits Brits at 35
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MoneySuperMarket has revealed that 35 is the financial ‘crunch point’ – the peak age at which Brits are most likely to be juggling the cost of young children with mortgages and loan repayments for cars, holidays and weddings. For the first time ever, the leading price comparison website has charted the average lifetime of borrowing,
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Organisations deploying AI are creating jobs and increasing sales
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Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has today announced the findings of Turning AI into concrete value: the successful implementers’ toolkit, a study of nearly 1,000 organisations with revenues of more than $500 million that are implementing artificial intelligence (AI), either as a pilot or at scale. The research both counters
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CEOs of small businesses spending a fifth of their working week on HR
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Research from breatheHR, a HR software platform, uncovered that CEOs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are losing a fifth of their working week to HR activity, which includes a long list of admin tasks from signing off expenses to logging sickness absences. As a result, CEOs find themselves caught in a HR limbo with
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Health of UK SMEs rises to an 18 month high
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The health of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK has risen to its highest level in 18 months according to the SME Health Check Index, a new quarterly economic index compiled by leading economics consultancy Centre for Economics and Business Research Limited (Cebr) in association with CYBG PLC, owner of Clydesdale and Yorkshire
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How to attract and retain the best staff
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Allowing staff the freedom to work on their own, offering employee benefits and making the office a fair and equal workspace are some of the essential tips for business who are looking to attract and retain the best staff. The office experts at Londonoffices.com have compiled ten of the best tactics that will help any
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Can Googling yourself help you understand your business better?
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We’ve all done it – had a sneaky search on Google to see what the internet is saying about us, but now it seems that Google has become an integral tool for businesses wanting to suss out their client-appeal, with 82 per cent of companies admitting to Googling themselves as part of company image control.
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How should the government handle ransom attackers?
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With 47 NHS organisations recently held to ransom by hackers using WannaCry, Top10VPN.com can reveal that almost half (48 per cent) of Britons believe that the government should pay up when public services are under threat. In fact, despite the spread of WannaCry being quickly halted, this number jumps to nearly three quarters (75 per
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UK businesses prepare for the September recruitment rush
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Businesses across the UK are preparing for the September recruitment rush, with job numbers soaring in some of the UK’s key cities last month. This is according to the latest statistics from CV-Library, which reveals Bristol (45.3 per cent), Sheffield (42.5 per cent) and Glasgow (37.8 per cent) are the top cities for job growth
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