As Verizon announces the acquisition of Yahoo! for $4.83 billion and the announcement earlier this month that Japan’s SoftBank buying Arm Holdings, the British smartphone chip designer for £24.3bn, Mary Clarke, CEO of Cognisco, looks at the challenges companies face bringing their employees together.
| Published: 29 July 2016
Over the past several years, successive British governments have prioritised growing the tech industry as a way to ensure that the UK economy can thrive in an increasingly digital world; and those results have paid off.
| Published: 29 July 2016
This year, Leicester City FC made history by winning the Premier League with odds of 5000 to 1. This came as a shock to many, but some will remember a similar situation back in 1995 when underdogs, Blackburn Rovers, became Premier League champions.
| Published: 27 July 2016
Many of us have experienced money worries at different times of our lives and will appreciate how severely they can impact on our wellbeing. Symptoms of anxiety, stress, depression and even physical conditions can be linked to financial concerns.
| Published: 27 July 2016
The benefits and challenges of employing people with Asperger’s have been explored in a new research project by Nottingham Business School, which questioned managers, human resources specialists and employees.
| Published: 27 July 2016
A recent report by Vodafone suggests that three-quarters of companies globally have now introduced some form of flexible working policy, and from those that have implemented the scheme, a huge majority (83 percent) have seen an increase in productivity as a direct result.
| Published: 27 July 2016
Responding to the latest ONS Labour Market statistics, Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy for the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, comments:
| Published: 26 July 2016
If there is one thing I have learned following Brexit, it is the meaningless value of “facts”. They provide an illusion of credibility that rarely exists in reality. Brexit was a brilliant illustration, a wealth of facts and a poverty of reason.
| Published: 25 July 2016
If the referendum was a protest vote against the politicians it also demonstrated a disenchantment with the leaders of business. By Gerry Brown, author of The Independent Director: The Non-Executive Director's Guide to Effective Board Presence
| Published: 22 July 2016
Although Ofcom has clamped down on some telecoms operators for miss-selling and misleading marketing some of the less scrupulous ones have created a few new tricks or revised old ones to catch out unwary businesses.
| Published: 22 July 2016
