Christmas may be the season of giving, but new research from Pleo, surveying 1,000 UK working adults who incur expenses, reveals employees are unintentionally footing the bill for their bosses.
Mambu, a cloud banking platform, has announced the acquisition of Numeral, a French payment technology provider for banks and fintechs.
Rick Gosling, Director and chartered financial planner at Five Wealth, explores how business owners can make surplus cash work harder for their companies.
Navigating the Self Assessment tax return process can be overwhelming, particularly for those new to it or who haven’t been filing for long. While it may seem straightforward for some, mistakes can easily be made, and opportunities to save time and money may be missed without proper guidance.
Introverts aren’t good at networking, we’re told. Introverts are shy, they say. So how could an introvert possibly enjoy a work party? Getting together outside the office with colleagues you might not know that well, spending hours talking about nothing, not being able to hear yourself think over the loud music – it all sounds like an introvert’s worst nightmare.
Let’s start with a question: How many people do you think it takes to run a top-tier social media account? One? Maybe two? Here’s a spoiler; it’s more. A lot more.
The past four years or so have brought with them a range of financial, economic, and systemic shocks. While everyone is hoping for a steadier future, with interest rates and inflation falling and economic growth and wages rising, it is more important than ever to be mindful that for your employees it may not be that simple. Dr Glenn Mason, Head of Adult Psychological Therapies at Onebright, discusses supporting financial wellbeing in the workplace.
UK firms broadly support the Government’s employee rights agenda but accept that it will lead to increased people management cost and complexity.
When I decided to stop practising as a social worker in March 2023 to devote myself full-time to my own business, I felt a deep sense of satisfaction and gratification. I felt content; I felt whole. Of course, I then faced a new set of challenges, but I realised that what I had achieved empowered me to deal with those challenges. Having achieved my purpose, I was able to navigate the tides and ride the waves that came my way.
Thrive, the fast-growth all-in-one learning technology company, has released findings from the UK’s first medical trial of the four-day work week in partnership with the University of Sussex, revealing significant improvements in both physical and mental wellbeing and productivity, but some challenges on a business level.
Oxford Ionics, a startup in trapped-ion quantum computing, has announced it is working together with Quanscient, a provider of multiphysics simulation software, and aerospace manufacturer Airbus to develop quantum simulations for computational fluid dynamics.
To operate successfully in an interconnected yet multifaceted world, the ability to communicate and relate in different languages has become increasingly important. Brits abroad are renowned for being lazy with language, relying on the widespread use of English in most parts of the world. Not only is this slightly mortifying, but this has resulted in an actual language deficit in the UK, which has been identified by the UK government as a barrier to trade.
I am Zeeshan Bukhari, Co-Founder of Bitaffix and I am leading my startup with a commitment of advancing global innovation using automation. With years of experience in helping business in achieving efficiency, I’ve seen firsthand how automation can transform business performance. In this article, I am going to explore the UK SME sector and the huge potential it has through digitalisation and automation with the right support and policies in place.
In 2006, Richard Hammond’s life changed in an instant during a high-speed crash that left him with a severe brain injury.
“Quality isn’t just a competitive edge, it’s a requirement,” says Radii Devices CEO & Founder Joshua Steer on building a successful MedTech startup.
New research from Cloudways, a managed hosting platform provider, has revealed that UK small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) could lose up to £2.7 billion in festive sales due to website errors and slow loading times.
The 4th December saw some of the most inspirational female founders come together at the everywoman Entrepreneur Awards for an afternoon of celebration. Over 300 business leaders, founders, and supporters of female entrepreneurs came together to celebrate the achievements of these extraordinary women and their businesses.
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), part of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has partnered with global innovation scaleup Wazoku to launch a crowdsourcing challenge that seeks a comprehensive telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) data link solution between a suborbital sounding rocket and a ground station.
FIGR Ventures, a newly established family office fund, has launched to invest in early-stage, mission-driven businesses.
bp Ventures and EIP co-led the $25 million Series C funding round that will be used to scale up Oxford Flow’s operations.
