New research has revealed the state of mental health support in UK businesses, with the majority of business leaders stating support isn’t available for their employees or isn’t utilised enough, despite admitting poor mental health impacts business performance.

HiBob, the modern HR platform’s next-generation human capital management that is delivering remarkable work experiences for dynamic, mid-sized multinationals has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 2022 Best Inventions. The annual list features exceptional innovations that make the world a better, smarter and more gratifying place to live. 

Nuance Hearing, a leading provider of focused listening technology, today announced that it has received an honourable mention in Fast Company’s second annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honouring technology breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of industries—from agriculture and environment to productivity and artificial intelligence.

UK employers face a shrinking labour force and will continue to wrestle with hiring challenges into 2023 and beyond, according to a new report released by sister companies Indeed and Glassdoor. 

The cost of physical inactivity, lifestyle related disease and costs accrued through sickness absence, are estimated at £8.2 billion in a year in England alone. Given the knock-on effects this can have on business, employers are increasingly looking for ways to promote the health and wellbeing of their staff.

We live in a world where businesses constantly reinvent themselves to remain competitive. Automation and digitisation goals feature in well over half of all today’s businesses’ long-term corporate strategies, according to PwC's most recent annual Global CEO Survey. Which is why artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual worlds or ‘metaverse’ related technologies and tools have risen to prominence, particularly in relation to improving on-the-job training and upskilling new talent.

When launching any enterprise, commercial or social, the key question to ask is why? Why am I creating this business? Who is it for? Do they need it? Does it help people get a job done in a better, more effective way? You need to know a project will be economically sustainable.

The chatter around quiet quitting is hard to ignore – this is when an employee doesn’t actually quit but remains in their job without performing above and beyond – but have you heard the buzz about quiet firing?

Join Startups Magazine on November 24th at Queen Mary Enterprise Zone for an evening of inspiration and motivation. 

Natural energy drink brand TENZING and climate intelligence platform CarbonCloud join forces for the second annual Knowvember - a month-long campaign bringing climate transparency to the high street.

In 2017, a YouGov survey found that 10% of British people admitted to having lied on their CV, while subsequent surveys have found that this number could be substantially more.  In this article, we explore the legalities of an employee lying on their CV, what employers can do to mitigate the risk of employing such an individual, and how they should respond if they later find an existing employee has been dishonest.

MORE than nine out of 10 people say they are worried about the cost of living crisis, according to a large-scale nationwide survey undertaken by Mazuma Mobile.

Almost half (43%) of property professionals are not improving their anti-money laundering (AML) processes because they either don’t care or don’t think they will get fined. That’s according to a survey from anti-money laundering tech scaleup, First AML, which surveyed 250 real estate professionals across the UK. 

Penzance-based Varfell Farms is one of the UK’s largest agri-business firms, supplying plants, bulbs, blooms and shrubs to retail chains including B&Q, M&S and Waitrose. After working with staff and students from Falmouth University, the company decided to issue an urgent call for expertise to help develop a prototype robot picker – currently code-named ‘Daffy’.  

New data from Barclays shows that the number of reported purchase scams after Black Friday and Cyber Monday last year rose by 34 per cent, with an average of £1,072 lost to scammers.