Despite the impact Covid-19 has had on recruitment activity, professional IT vacancies have fared considerably well, with the number of jobs available in quarter one 2021 71.7% higher than the same time a year earlier. That’s according to new research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), the trade association for the recruitment sector.

Remote working drives demand wit...

CEDR has announced the key finding from its 9th Mediation Audit that in the 12 months to March 2020 approximately 16,500 commercial mediations were performed in the UK, an increase of 38% from the 12,000 figure announced in 2018. The full audit can be viewed at https://adobe.ly/3nSaYbC

Whereas in previous audits increases were attributable mainly to the introduction of mediation schemes or pathwa...

With a flurry of space activity expected within next decade, ever-worsening US-China relations will become a more pressing issue, with two key areas of potential friction, reveals a new report from LSE IDEAS.

The report proves timely with the launch of the first module of China’s new orbital space station, just over a week after the US continued its successful new era of crewed spaceflight with t...

Business development and leadership development should go hand in hand, states Pekka Mattila, Associate Dean of Executive Education at Aalto University.

Dr Mattila says that leadership development has a crucial role in creating a competitive business advantage, as previous studies have shown that it improves financial performance, helps attract and retain talent, drives strategy execution, and in...

eToro, the world's leading social investment network, released its Q1 2021 report, produced in partnership with The Tie, a leading provider of alternative data for digital assets, titled Inherent Value. Inherent Value looks at three highly relevant and timely topics. The report covers three timely and relevant issues. First, it explores The Pathology of Hyperinflation and looks at the role Bit...

With the progress of the COVID vaccination campaign in mind, many organisations have communicated that employees are expected to work from the office again.

However new research from Wladislaw Rivkin at Trinity Business School, Fabiola Gerpott and Dana Unger demonstrates that commuting reduces productivity at work by draining mental energy, effecting our ability to fully focus on what we’re doing...

Contract opportunities in South Africa and India are booming as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to shift the focus away from Europe. That’s according to a recent analysis of contractor placement trends from 6CATS International.

The leading provider of contractor management solutions revealed that the increased flexibility of work and a spike in remote working options for contractors has led to...

Throughout lockdown, business leaders have debated the tricky issue of how best to engage and support their people while working from home.

However, according to a major new industry survey “The 2021 Contact Centre People Engagement Survey”, 81% of Agents/Advisers - and 56% of Directors/Managers - say that People Engagement in their Contact Centres is not a problem.

322 UK Contact Centre Directo...

Nearly all employees who are working from home (97%) prefer to keep working from home, even when offices are open, according to respondents in the third round of a joint research conducted by Nyenrode Business University, Open University and Moneypenny. The study found that 9% wants to keep working from home fulltime – 88% prefers a hybrid 50-50 model. The missing of real life formal and informal ...