After a rollercoaster year and a half, our economy is preparing to burst back to life.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Why innovation is the key to sustainable business
Running a business is no easy thing. For the past 18 years, I’ve been on that journey of entrepreneurship.
‘Scraping’ the barrel? The risks of publicly available data
The social media giants have found themselves in the news again, and not for positive reasons.
Return to the office provides a ‘mental release’ for remote workers
It’s not often that a multi-national investment bank such as Goldman Sachs shares a common bond with another fine city institution – Pimlico Plumbers!
Rishi Sunak: Will people really quit if forced to work from home?
Rishi Sunak’s comments urging businesses to encourage workers to get back into the office or risk losing them may ring true with some, but certainly not with the majority.
Working at home can lift positivity, productivity and profitability
Policymakers may be underestimating the power of remote working to boost productivity.
A flexible working law is government meddling in the extreme, which would dash our recovery hopes
Enshrining a right to work from home into law would be anti-business and set back any chance of a quick recovery from the pandemic.
Pandemic insolvencies: ‘The worst is yet to come’
When government support measures come to an end later this year, a raft of businesses that have been reliant on them for survival are likely to fail
Tax Day impact on the future of the high street
The government announced during the 2020 Budget that it would conduct a full review of the business rates system after consistent calls from business owners over the negative impact and burden the tax has on sustaining growth.
The green ‘key’ to building back better
Net-zero carbon buildings have been high on several successive governments’ wish list for at least a decade.
Vaccine passports are inevitable, not just for travel as a spark for economic recovery
When I started talking about vaccine passports some months ago, I didn’t think it was a huge stretch to imagine a United Kingdom where society would soon be divided into vaccine ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’
‘Pro-growth’ data reforms bring opportunities and risks
On 1 January 2021, following the end of the Brexit transition period, the UK’s data protection laws were changed. Out went the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, and in came the UK’s very own version of the GDPR.
The excluded remain so, but the fight for Forgotten Ltd remains
Millions still fighting for survival during the Coronavirus crisis, excluded from help by Rishi Sunak’s Budget 2021
The budget 2021: Looking beyond coronavirus
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has clearly turned his mind to how the economy starts to trade its way out of the mountain of debt accrued to support businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Generation of women-led businesses could be lost to the economy if Britain fails to start childcare revolution
A generation of women could be lost to the economy if a revolution is not started in how childcare is provided in the UK, a leading woman entrepreneur has warned.
