World Bank commits £9.4bn aid to help poor countries fight virus
THE WORLD Bank has committed $12bn (£9.4bn) to help developing countries cope with the spread of coronavirus.
The aid package includes technical assistance as well...
Selfless gesture: world’s super rich calling for higher taxation
SOME of the richest people on the planet want higher taxes on themselves and their peers to aid economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
A...
As everything falls apart, UK tech sector shows resilience
THE UK’S fastest-growing sector, the tech industry, will maintain resilience despite the Covid-19 outbreak.
That optimistic claim follows analysis from recruitment firm Robert Walters. In...
Slackers! Back to work! And switch off that Netflix series!
EIGHT out of 10 Brits are working from home, but it has come to light that not all of them have their noses to...
Latest UK government scheme adds ‘bounce’ for businesses
CHRISTINA NAWROCKI explains the most recent UK initiative to support small businesses left floundering by the pandemic
UK CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak recently...
Straddling the fence: will hybrid working be middle ground in home-or-office?
By ROSS SEYCHELL
IT’S BEEN a year since the UK entered the biggest — and longest — remote-working experiment in history. But with the vaccine rollout...
Covid hits workplace relationships — and productivity takes a knock
COVID-19’S impact on employer-employee relationships is hampering productivity, a report claims.
MetLife UK found that 72 percent of employers and 62 percent of employees have...
Contactless ‘in-touch with wary consumers’ — cash ‘faring poorly’
CONTACTLESS spending could soon account for 47 percent of all transactions, according to research carried out by the Centre of Retail Research (CRR).
It examined...
TGIF, right? Hybrid- and home-working add flavour to Fridays
FRIDAYS may be everyone’s favourite weekday, but the last day of the working week sees 15 percent less business activity than Mondays to Thursdays.
As...
Second helping of aid for the UK’s self-employed
SELF-EMPLOYED people whose income has been hit by coronavirus can apply for a second support grant from the UK government.
The first was launched in...
