With pandemic-driven remote working helping to accelerate change in the way businesses operate, UK employers are now being forced to offer increasingly attractive packages to their people as new research shows that more than a third of employees feel they have more power now than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The data, from Benenden Health’s ‘Workforce of the Future’ report, found that half of wo...

The 'Space-as-a-service', 'Satellite-as-a-service' and 'Space Data as a Service' are the newest business models of Space Industry, according to a recent report from International Defense, Security & Technology Inc (IDST).

They said that the modern space industry is witnessing exponential growth in small satellite and nanosatellite areas. Nanosatellite and microsatelli...

Executive compensation consultancy Pearl Meyer has published new data that show companies are going deeper into their organizations with equity grants, and that burn rates have increased dramatically.

Key Findings

- 28% indicated more employees are receiving equity than in the previous year

- 34% have increased the value of equity granted to top leadership

- 37% have raised the value of equ...

China’s call for ‘common prosperity’, and associated policies, will have important implications for China’s economy and business, finds a new report from LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics’ foreign policy think tank.

According to the report, authored by Dr Xin Sun, Senior Lecturer in Chinese and East Asian Business and a member of the China Foresight forum at LSE IDEAS, “Xi’s own words do ...

Private equity buyouts currently focus on growing their portfolio companies, which in turn leads to a growth in employment, according to new research from Vlerick Business School. Previously, companies purchased by private equity firms tended to enhance their efficiency as opposed to growth.

Private equity buyouts have often had a bad press, seen as a predatory practice that creates value for sha...

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We have already touched upon the fact that, since 1 December 2020, the B2B Act of 4 April 2019 has ensured that consideration is given to the imbalances which may exist between contracting companies (just as in consumer law) and that, for this purpose, provisions have been in...

We need to create specific accountability guidelines to ensure that the use of AI robots remains ethical, according to new research from Durham University Business School.

The paper sets out a new framework for ensuring organisations that employ AI robots have accountability guidelines in place. AI robots are increasingly used to facilitate human activity in many industries, for instance, healthc...

Soaring numbers of business leaders are ditching their mobile phones and laptops and signing up for survival courses to improve performance at work.

Newly formed firm Spartan Survival say they've seen a six-fold third in bookings since the pandemic as business leaders seek a "reset in mindset".

Increasing numbers of teams, many now working from home, are also "reconnecting&quo...

Many of the key IT systems supporting business operations were written in the last century and the professionals who built them are thinking about retirement or have already retired. Nick Denning, CEO of Diegesis considers how to prepare for the future.

IT professionals with the skills needed to keep businesses running are disappearing from the world of work. This is a generational issue that is ...