New Post-COVID Hybrid Work Arrangements May Not Be as Flexible as Desired May 17, 2021 By Lucy Meakin Fourteen months after coronavirus confined the world’s office-workers to their homes, companies are embarking on another great experiment — how...
UK Businesses Face Miles of Red Tape with New Brexit Border Rules January 12, 2021 By Lucy Meakin, Lizzy Burden and Deirdre Hipwell While the mile-long lines of trucks have dissipated at ports, UK businesses are waking up to less visible forms of...
UK Joins Global Backlash Against Tech Firms that Fail to Control Harmful Content April 9, 2019 By Lucy Meakin and Kitty Donaldson The U.K. joined a growing global backlash against technology companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., proposing fines and...
UK Financial Services Firms Fail to Improve Gender Pay Gap April 5, 2019 By Lucy Meakin, David Hellier and Hayley Warren Women working in the U.K.’s financial-services industry are seeing little improvement in their pay parity with male colleagues, according to...
Brexit Effect: Number of EU Nationals Working in UK Plunges During Q2 August 16, 2018 By Jill Ward and Lucy Meakin Further evidence that Brexit is deterring European Union workers emerged in figures published Tuesday [Aug. 14]. The number of EU...
UK Finance, Insurance Industries Set Export Record February 5, 2018 By Lucy Meakin U.K. exports of financial and related professional services grew to a record in 2016 as all regions surged. Exports rose...