A new Westminster wellbeing group to tackle post-pandemic challenges undermining work health and productivity has been officially launched. The Policy Liaison Group (PLG) on Workplace Wellbeing was formally launched in Westminster on 5 September 2024. The new cross-party forum chaired ...

Seventy-six per cent of UK professionals state that the current 40-hour workweek doesn’t suit them, according to a new poll carried out by talent solutions firm, Robert Walters. With half (51 per cent) stating that switching to a four-day week ...

Delivered-in office and venue catering specialist, Grazing, has extended its central production unit (CPU) in London’s Bermondsey by almost 50 per cent having taken on the lease of a neighbouring unit. Grazing’s CPU has been based out of Bermondsey’s Old ...

The Open University’s Business Barometer 2022, published in partnership with the British Chambers of Commerce, has found that 78 per cent of UK organisations are seeing reduced output, profitability or growth as a result of skills shortages. Three-quarters (72 per ...

Noisy offices are lowering productivity, with 60 per cent of office workers unable to concentrate and delivering poor quality work due to loud workspaces, according to a new study by Oscar Acoustics. The specialists in architectural acoustic finishes, has released ...

A report from the Productivity Institute, a UK-wide research organisation based at Alliance Manchester Business School, outlines urgent recommendations to raise public sector productivity, as a critical driver for economic growth in the UK. The report highlights how the public ...

Two thirds of desks in offices are now unused on a daily basis, and even on the busiest days offices are more than half empty, a global study has found. The Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) Hybrid Working Index study of ...

Nestlé Coffee Partners has shared research* revealing that 7 out of 10 employees feel more productive and have better work ideas after a cup of coffee. More than a third of respondents (39%) came back and cracked a problem, 12% ...

Leeson Medhurst, Director of 360 Workplace – Fourfront Group says good leadership is the key to enhancing our productivity What’s happening to our productivity? Not much. Since the financial crash of 2008/10 productivity in the UK has dragged and instead ...