The West Midlands has defied Brexit uncertainty with the highest number of new businesses since the EU referendum, according to new figures by UK credit check specialist Creditsafe. The company’s UK Start-up Index revealed which regions have suffered and which have benefited since the referendum result was announced in June 2016. The West Midlands came out on top with a 21% increase in new businesses from May 2016-April 2019, while Wales saw an 18% decrease over the same period.
To mark the day when humanity has officially used up ‘nature’s resource budget’ for the entire year, (Earth Overshoot Day), new research by sustainable fashion brand, Thought, investigates why we don’t fix things anymore.
If you search for images of women in business on Google you would have to clarify the female gender. If you search for ‘entrepreneur’ or ‘successful business person’ almost all of the images are of men. There is a problem.
The launch of the Mayor of London's study gave us an illuminating view into the links between poverty and violence, with a specific view on the geography of the issue in relation to a potential solution. The link between the loss of life and financial strain is not a new one, and as the study suggests, the poorest areas of London have been seeing the greatest amount of violent crime committed by young people.
The results of a survey of UK office workers suggests that we are becoming increasingly anxious about answering the phone at work.
- Online spare parts retailer reveals 75% of Brits don’t fix repairable appliances - eSpares launches #FixFirst campaign to change consumer behaviour - Increasing repair rates by 10% could prevent 100,000 tonnes of waste
Superhero Tri Powered by Marvel’, created by ex-Paralympian Sophia Warner, is a unique disability sporting event and the UK’s only mass-participation sports series dedicated to the nation’s 13.3m people with disabilities - the mission is simple
• Over 41% of those under the age of 40 prefer to shop online, rather than in-store • British consumers want access to payment methods that aren’t yet available, such as fingerprint scan (26%), retina scan (16%) and embedded microchips (9%) • Twitter data shows British consumers express frustrations with the in-store experience most prominently in the weeks leading up to Christmas[i]
More than third of UK employees want to leave their company immediately because their boss lacks vital leadership qualities in their workplace
Imagen, the leading SaaS video management platform business, has been selected by PROGRESS, one of the oldest and largest film distributors in Germany, to manage and distribute its vast content library of over 17,000 films to global media companies.
When you finally decide that the moment has come for you to start your own business or branch out as a freelancer, there is a lot to do and a lot to think about. Suddenly your time has become your biggest asset, so it is worth finding the tools to help you make the most of it. That way you will be able to plough through the work with the right support to help you.
It was recently reported, in a study by the University of Hertfordshire and TUC, that the size of the gig economy has doubled in size over the past three years and now accounts for 4.7 million workers with one in 10 working-age adults now work on gig economy platforms (up from one in 20 in 2016).
