Susannah Streeter, Senior Investment and Markets Analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, notes: "After months of stomach-turning turbulence, the travel sector has flown into brighter skies with the announcement that double vaccinated UK travellers would be able to return from countries graded as amber on the UK travel list, without needing to quarantine.

"The news immediately pulled British Air...

The number of investigations into formal complaints being launched by organisations has dramatically increased Since November 2020, with such cases becoming increasingly complex, delegates were told at the TCM Group’s recent Investigations & Audits Annual Conference.

Gary Rogers, Head of TCM Investigations and Audit Services, told the conference that TCM has conducted rapidly increasing numbe...

United Nations (UN) organisations spent $22.3 billion on goods and services in 2020, according to a new report published by UNOPS on behalf of the UN system.

The 2020 Annual Statistical Report on UN Procurement analyses the combined annual UN spending on goods and services.

It shows that the UN’s procurement increased by more than 12% since 2019, an increase of $2.4 billion. This increase was d...

Vacancy numbers for graduates and trainees have been hit hard by the pandemic, with the number of roles in the first half of 2021 down 66% when compared to the same period in 2019. That’s according to the latest real-time statistics from the world’s largest network of job boards, Broadbean Technology.

Graduate Employment Opportunities Hit Hardest by Pandemic

Broadbean’s data not only reveals tha...

A new Shaped By study of more than 200 senior tech marketers reveals that 74% believe the sector is "brave" when going to market.

Three quarters say the pandemic has sparked greater creativity and imagination.

66% support courage and risk-taking in their go-to market approach.

Design and creativity emerges as a lead priority for 60% of UK and US marketers.

98% have expanded and exper...

Large industrial facilities lose more than a day’s worth of production each month and hundreds of millions of dollars a year to machine failures, according to a new report published by Senseye, the AI-powered machine health management company.

The True Cost Of Downtime report shares findings from a study of 72 major multinational industrial and manufacturing companies. It reveals that, on averag...

Reports of HMRC-branded phishing scams have jumped from 572,029 to 1,069,522 in the last year – a surge of 87% – according to official figures.

The data, obtained by accountancy group Lanop Outsourcing under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, analysed data over the three most recent financial years (April 2018–2019, April 2019–2020 and April 2020–2021).

The figures show that reports of suspe...

The vast majority of change management efforts within organisations fail. According to new research from Nyenrode Business University, change can only truly be successful when you listen to the people in your organisations and (try to) understand their perspectives on an issue as well as their vision for the future.

The study was carried out over a period of eight years, and respondents were inte...

With skills shortages rapidly impacting the "bounce back" for a number of UK businesses, the candidate experience is more critical than it has ever been, according to online talent sourcing specialist Talent.com.

Industries including hospitality, retail and construction have all reported a struggle to attract enough workers to fill demand as both the impact of COVID and Brexit have crea...