A group of start-ups think the sharing economy model made popular by Airbnb can work for the storage industry.
Source: BBC
Category Archives: Services
TUC: 1.5 million denied employment protections
The growth in the so-called gig economy means the number of workers denied employment protection in the UK has doubled in the past decade, according to the TUC.
Source: Sky Business News
Southern rail strike: Angry commuters protest at DoT
Passengers protest outside Department for Transport over Southern rail strike; one says it four hours to travel home.
Source: BBC
Bid to avoid labour shortages post-Brexit
Ministers are harvesting numbers on how many EU migrants will need to keep coming to the UK post-Brexit in order to avoid chronic labour shortages in a host of sectors from housebuilding to hospitality.
Source: Sky Business News
Rentokil cleans up with German workwear deal
One of the main corporate beneficiaries of the post-referendum slide in sterling is placing a huge bet on Europe by forming a new venture with a continental peer.
Source: Sky Business News
Greece passes pension deal in defiance of bailout creditors
The Greek parliament defies international creditors and approves a one-off payment to pensioners.
Source: BBC
Fake news: Facebook rolls out new tools to tackle false stories
Facebook is introducing new features to help combat fabricated news stories online.
Source: BBC
Facebook reveals plan to fight fake news
Facebook says fact-checking organisations will help it fight fake news, with users seeing news feed warnings over dubious stories.
Source: Sky Business News
Employees have witnessed cheating at the office Christmas party
Is your partner’s office Christmas party coming up? Then you had better get a plus one, as a recent survey reveals nearly half of employees have witnessed a colleague cheating on their better half at the office Christmas bash. A festive survey of 1,000 people, commissioned by stationery company Euroffice, has shows a staggering 43 per cent
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Source: SmallBusinessUK
Working parents call for more government and employer support
The low take-up of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and the lack of affordable childcare options for parents with 0-2 year-olds are both major problems that need to be addressed to support working parents more effectively, according to a new report from the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development. The survey of over
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Source: SmallBusinessUK