Streaming services basking in unprecedented demand from a currently ‘captive’ audience

IT'S AN ILL wind that blows no good, and Disney Plus is on the sweet end of a compensatory breeze from the pandemic. The video...

Blue for thinking, green for chilling: office design 2.0

By GUZMÁN YARZA DE BLACHE SPENDING the evening scrolling through work emails is something we all do, and it’s a bad habit – a leading...

A menace by any other name: the ‘equaliser’ that just isn’t

By William Roman COVID-19 and coronavirus are the most common names for it, but some sociologists and economists are tentatively hailing the virus as the...

Shrimps, time bombs — and need for study of wartime economies

By William Roman PICK a word starting with “C”… no, not coronavirus; not yet, anyway. The C here stands for crustaceans. The humble shrimp, for instance....

Hidden costs of recruitment: staff are leaving early, underperforming

BUSINESSES employing up to 250 people are losing 14 percent of their staff each year, only to see 39 percent of their new employees...

AI to the rescue? Oxford-based firm enters partnership to crack COVID-19

AN AI-DRIVEN drug-discovery company in the UK has entered a joint initiative to advance compounds that could treat COVID-19. Oxford-based Exscientia has teamed-up with Diamond...

Undertrained, underemployed and unprepared: UK squandering potential of workers

A REPORT by the City & Guilds Group shines a worrying light on the UK’s skills and productivity crisis. As productivity continues to decline, businesses...

Coronavirus co-operation across sectors comes up with promising equipment

THE MERCEDES F1 team is an unlikely player in the medical field, but it has had a major role in the development of a...

SDG3: Bold efforts to eradicate epidemics and all preventable diseases

Preventing maternal mortality and infant deaths: this UN goal guns for some crucial advances. JASON AGNEW reports. SDG3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING BEYOND the broad sweep...