CFO of UK’s Prudential Resigns Amid Probe Into Conduct May 31, 2023 By Bei Hu Prudential Plc Chief Financial Officer James Turner resigned on Wednesday amid a probe into a code of conduct matter related...
Barclays Banker Alleges He Was Pigeonholed as ‘Aggressive Black Man’ in Lawsuit May 3, 2023 A Barclays banker, one of three men of Cameroonian background to sue the bank in a joint London claim, alleges...
Mental Ill Health Drives Britain’s Crisis of Worker Sickness: Research April 28, 2023 Mental ill-health is now the main cause of sickness absence from work in the UK, costing employers billions of pounds...
Hybrid-Work Environments Are Becoming More Inclusive for Women: Deloitte April 27, 2023 By Ella Ceron After three years of trial and error, hybrid-work environments are finally becoming more inclusive. The number of women who reported...
CBI President Says Business Group May Not Survive Sexual Assault Scandal April 25, 2023 By Sabah Meddings The Confederation of British Industry may not survive a scandal triggered by rape claims among staff, its president said, as...
Update: Major UK Companies Abandon CBI Following Second Rape Claim April 21, 2023 By Katie Linsell, Sabah Meddings, Thomas Seal and Laura Benitez A swathe of major UK companies, ranging from banks to supermarkets, have resigned from the Confederation of British Industry as...
Japanese Banks (and Insurers) Face Spotlight for ‘Gender Washing’ Women Managers April 19, 2023 By Taiga Uranaka and Komaki Ito Some Japanese banks may soon come under the spotlight for potential “gender washing” over the way they count the number...
Scandal at CBI Plunges UK Business Lobby Into Existential Crisis April 17, 2023 By Sabah Meddings and Joe Mayes When Rishi Sunak stepped up to the podium at the Vox venue in Birmingham in November, he had one mission:...
UK’s Confederation of British Industry Fires Director General After Probe of Complaints April 11, 2023 By David Milliken and William Schomberg The Confederation of British Industry said it had fired its director-general Tony Danker and suspended three others after an investigation...
Toronto Office Vacancies Hit 28-Year High as Remote Work Persists April 10, 2023 By Ari Altstedter The office vacancy rate in downtown Toronto reached its highest point since 1995 as the persistence of remote work damps...