Category: Opinion

With local councils gaining powers over business rates and public health spending, Dr Steve Boorman at Empactis explores the likely knock-on effects for businesses and how they can best benefit from the change.

Next week the UK celebrates ‘London Technology Week’ – a whole Seven days dedicated to promoting the Capital as a global powerhouse of tech innovation, whilst helping both start-ups and established SME’s embrace the digital age to aid business growth.

In just over a week we will finally have an answer to the great European question.  As the debate has raged on, either side has laid claim to uniquely understanding the potential cost to the country of either leaving or remaining in the EU. 

Brett is splitting opinion across the UK so Tet Kofi from Journolink asked small businesses which way they were voting and why

Last Friday marked the close of Work Wise Week designed to promote modern “smarter” working practices such as agile, flexible, remote and mobile working. Far from simply being buzz words, these approaches to organisations empower their people to work can bring real benefits – from driving productivity to improving employee wellbeing.

We hear so much about teamwork these days. It’s framed, quite rightly, as a key component of business performance and is drummed into us from an early age that collective endeavour will get us further in life. Its status is now such that teamwork often morphs into the much grander idea of ‘synergy’.

It has the most start-ups per capita outside of London but Brighton’s tech cluster has a skills gap to plug.

For as long as technology has evolved, the working population has been concerned that their job will soon be turned to dust in favour of a quicker and automated solution. From the introduction of the loom back in the 19th century to automatic checkouts in supermarkets today, the fight between man and machine endures.