A female business leader has said that companies who ask for candidates’ existing salaries in the recruitment process are preventing progress on closing the gender pay gap.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
How scaling a business with multiple founders can be challenging
With a background as a doctor Hjalmar Ståhlberg Nordegren, CEO of food waste app Karma has always been passionate about solving big problems.
Fly-tipping: Let’s call it ‘Environmental Terrorism’ from now on
Fly-tippers who destroy local beauty spots and hand huge clean-up bills to councils should be called out as environmental terrorists and treated as such.
British Cleaning Council ‘worried and concerned’ by proposed post-Brexit immigration rules
The British Cleaning Council (BCC) has said it is ‘very worried and concerned’ about the ‘huge’ possible impact of Government proposals to introduce an ‘Australian-style points-based’ immigration system from 2021.
Wearable tech is maturing, but is still out of the mainstream
Wearable technology is an emerging sub-market in the Internet of Things (IoT) theme, but is yet to establish itself in the IoT mainstream due to limited interoperability and underdeveloped self-contained functionalities.
Is digital transformation the future of retail?
Digital transformation in retail should be at the core of every strategy, regardless of whether a retailers’ primary storefronts are online or physical buildings.
We need to start celebrating the bootstrap
We have an unhealthy obsession with venture capital (VC) investment. Looking at the headlines, you’d be forgiven for thinking there is only one way of building a company.
The debate over the rise of cashless economies
In the last decade there have been big changes to how people pay for things.
Eyal Nachum of Bruc Bond cautions UK clients: Brexit is not over yet
Eyal Nachum, Bruc Bond’s fintech guru, is cautioning investors and clients in the United Kingdom against complacency regarding cross-border payments in a post-Brexit world.
New research reveals when stretch goals work
Stretch goals are meant to inspire a new level of commitment from employees to generate fresh ideas, and can lead to radical results.
Battling sick days: boosting workplace health and motivation
Across the UK, more people are expected to pull a sickie today than on any other day of the year.
Self-employed company directors deserve equal access to mortgage finance
Across the country, self-employed people are scurrying away trying to get their shoeboxes of receipts into order and their tax returns filed before the end of the month.
Research shows discounters part of seismic shift in UK grocery shopping habits
New research provides clear evidence that discounters like Aldi and Lidl are part of a seismic shift in UK grocery shopping habits.
As regional focus shifts North, private equity is ahead of the trend
Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has ordered work to begin on investigating the practicalities of moving the House of Lords to York, with Birmingham being another of the cities under consideration.
Accelerating the innovation of business
Forbes and the WSJ have both stated that every company, whether by choice or not, is now a technology company. Think about it, if you will.
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