Category: Opinion

The Generation Game – soon to be revived on our TV screens – was the British game show of the 1970s stealing baby boomers’ hearts and Saturday nights

The value of annual performance appraisals has been challenged by employers in recent years and subsequently, many have cast aside traditional appraisals in favour what the CIPD terms as ‘performance conversations’

The terms social media is one of the most widely mis-understood that we come across at Gravity – along with digital marketing itself! Many people believe that social media relates solely to two household names, Facebook and Twitter, that have emerged in recent years and gone on to dominate the field. In reality there is a lot more to social media than these two forums!

Technology and the ways we use it is set to disrupt society and business in dramatic ways. So, what can we do today to mitigate the risks of tomorrow? Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells and Alexandra Whittington of Fast Future believe there are five actions governments should take now to prepare for the technological disruptions of […]

Customer loyalty is crucial to the success of a business, no matter what size. 

With unemployment at its lowest since 1975, you would probably think job satisfaction is now at its highest, right?

With every passing month, the onset of the General Data Protection Regulation seems to gather additional momentum.

Last week it was revealed that the FTSE 100 bosses earn 160 times the average wage at £4.5m a year, although it has reduced significantly from 2015 when the average was £5.4m.

As of June this year, the EU introduced it’s new ‘roam like at home’ regulation.

Following The Supreme Court’s decision to immediately abolish employment tribunal fees, which were declared to prevent an individual’s right of access to justice there has been a warning that this move will lead to a rise in employment tribunal applications, and in turn, even insurance claims.

I’ve received the most wonderful news that my company, Pimlico Plumbers, has been granted permission to appeal our long-running and potentially ground-breaking employment case to the Supreme Court.

Leaders are scared and struggling in this new era of extraordinary and unexpected disruption.

The meeting: a fundamental activity for any organisation, whatever the size or sector. But do meetings serve a purpose and are they efficient? According to authors Michael C Mankin and Eric Garton in their book Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power, senior executives now spend the equivalent of two […]

In 2015, it emerged that Facebook was going to be moving into the banking arena.