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Karren Brady’s Women in Business & Tech Expo readies to empower the female workforce

Karren Brady’s Women in Business & Tech Expo returns to London this autumn bigger and better to empower professionals and shine a light on organisations who champion diverse workforces and equal opportunities.

Cignpost partners with DP World Tour to provide health & diagnostics services to pro golf

Cignpost, the leading health and diagnostics company, has signed a landmark three-year partnership agreement with the DP World Tour in a collaboration that will see Cignpost become the Tour’s Official Health Diagnostics and Screening Partner, and Founding Partner to the European Tour Health and Performance Institute.

Self-Employed Professions Allow the Most & Least Work Life Balance?

There is simply no hiding that our professions take up most of our time. Sometimes, you open the front door as the morning birds tweet in unison outside your house, only to get home once the sun has disappeared behind the horizon.

Extreme Heat in the Workplace: How to Keep Staff Safe and Comfortable

With England expecting its first ever red warning for extreme heat this week, raised temperatures in the workplace have the potential to become a health and safety issue as employers struggle to keep working areas within the recommended temperatures.

Q&A: Mark Scanlon, CEO at Tenet Group Ltd

Reset Connect London 2022 – ExCel 28-29 June 2022. The UK’s leading Sustainability and Net-Zero Event, established to bridge the gaps between sustainability change-makers, business leaders, government, and funding.

What goals are Brits hoping to achieve in 2022?

Covid and its subsequent lockdowns provided us with an opportunity to assess our lives and look inward to determine what we truly want from our lives. Many Brits took up a new hobby, some quit their jobs, and some jumped onto the property ladder.

Mobidea Advice – Review and Cancel your Unnecessary Subscription and Save Money

The wonderful thing about automation is that it relieves you of so much stress. With it, life becomes a delight, albeit at the expense of your wallet. There are numerous things available online that you may find appealing, and the creators or marketers of these products understand their job so well (thus the free trials and incentives) that they will use whatever means necessary to entice you.

‘Coffee & co-working’ launched to create 1,000 safe spaces for female entrepreneurs

The national organisation for female business owners, Women’s Business Club, is launching a ‘Coffee & Co-Working’ initiative to bring more women together as the pandemic threat eases.

iDenfy enhances its identity verification platform

The global digital identity verification and fraud prevention company, iDenfy, introduced a feature to its automated ID verification toolkit, Face Authentication.

Menopause in the workplace

With the conversation around menopause and the workplace becoming a focal point in recent months, workplace discrimination and employment law solicitors Beecham Peacock reveal the current status of employment rights relating to menopause and how these might change in the future.

London Climate Technology Show is ready to welcome this year’s most important sustainability gathering

Leading policymakers, business leaders, investors, technocrats convening together to accelerate action towards sustainable future.

Top European countries for new business entrepreneurs

Investing in a new business at home can be difficult at the best of times, but it can be even trickier when you want to begin new business ventures overseas. However, with searches for ‘How to start a new business’ increasing by 200% in the past years, it is safe to say people are looking at ways to invest.

9-day fortnight now workplace policy at CharlieHR

CharlieHR makes its nine-day fortnight a permanent policy for its team following a successful nine-month trial saw both wellbeing and productivity improve.

The role of AI-driven call recording and speech analytics

In recent times, employee wellbeing has been on the top of the agenda for both employees and employers, and the pandemic has brought it even further into the spotlight. Simon Peters, Managing Director at CallCabinet UK discusses. 

Santander and Formula 1 challenge entrepreneurs worldwide to find next-gen sustainable solutions

Banco Santander is launching a global challenge for startups and scale-ups from 11 countries in order to find innovative and sustainable solutions for the automotive industry in different areas: mobility, logistics and transport, and carbon offset alternatives, supported by Formula 1.

Study Shows That Drivers Want Connected Cars – But They Still Have Concerns

A report by Utimaco has shown that the general public in the UK, as well as Germany and Spain, are enthusiastic about the features in internet-connected vehicles (‘connected cars’), but a significant number have reservations about their security that vehicle makers need to work to address.

Monneo leads the way for banking as a service with the launch of API

 Monneo, the complete end to end payment ecosystem provider launches an application programming interface (API).

Ukrainian founded Preply raises $50m series C

Ukrainian-founded Preply, reached a record-breaking milestone in the company’s funding history today, raising $50m USD in its series C, amassing more than USD $100m in investments since inception.  Despite the war in Ukraine, founders Kirill Bigai, Dmytro Voloshyn and Serge Lukyanov have succeeded in building a truly global business, expanding the team to over 400 employees of 58 different nationalities across 30 countries worldwide. From an education startup, Preply has become a global e-learning powerhouse that connects the world’s largest live language learning community.

The importance of levelling up connectivity

Rural based business communities risk being “left behind” and “isolated” because they have to put up with third-rate connectivity services, an expert has warned.

98% of UK businesses experienced a security incident in last 12 months

A significant 98% of UK organisations experienced some form of a security incident in the last 12 months, according to a report from Barracuda Networks.