An “urgent focus” on affordability has prompted Airbnb to promote more heavily rooms inside people’s homes, rather than entire properties, shifting back to the travel platform’s roots. The business will elevate the prominence of its one million single-room listings as holidaymakers tighten their belts, and attempt to address apprehension over the prospect of staying with […]
Producing high-quality content for SMEs presents three significant challenges: resources, expertise, and visibility. Blaise Hope is the CEO and Founder of Origin Hope, a leading global content outsourcer. Through its proprietary training, certification, Generative AI, ML and other evolving technologies, it is the first company in the world to offer: any content in any format, […]
A warning has been issued today that services such as health and education could be impacted as Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreements come to an end without proper management in place to ensure any necessary works have been completed. The engineering and project management firm say the public sector faces […]
The British High Commission in India, Energy Systems Catapult, and the Indian Institute of Science have launched a new challenge call to help UK innovation tackle some of India’s key decarbonisation challenges in transport. As part of the challenge call, UK start ups and SMEs who are addressing transport system decarbonisation challenges can receive: Research […]
Electron Green, the commercial solar electricity firm, today announces up to £1 billion of funding for solar to end the business energy crisis. The company will kickstart a solar electricity revolution for businesses by putting free solar panels on commercial rooftops, delivering low-cost solar electricity to its occupants from as little as 20p / unit. […]
One of Wearside’s oldest manufacturers looking to grow operations globally is drawing on university expertise to help realise its ambitious expansion plans. Speedings Ltd began life as a sailmaker in 1827 but has adapted its core business over the last two centuries and now produces innovative lifesaving personal safety products for the emergency services; supplying […]
UK workers are finding British offices and places of work to be lacking, as the latest research has branded them as uninspiring and uninviting, with many blaming the pandemic for the shift in work attitudes. A new report by interior design and fit-out business Claremont has revealed how businesses can make workplaces relevant and compelling […]
Nearly three quarters of UK SMEs have abandoned plans to expand overseas due to sky-high trading costs, according to new research. The findings were contained in a survey which quizzed industry chiefs about their plans for expansion, ambitions for the year ahead and concerns around the economy. Resources and training were cited as a barrier […]
New analysis has found that on average hybrid working employees deliver nearly two extra weeks of work a year for their employer as well as working harder and better in a hybrid environment. The results of the analysis — which shows the benefits of hybrid working for organisations — are a combination of academic research […]
14 months after a consultation into the umbrella industry, the government still hasn’t issued its response – despite a 400% increase in umbrella working since 2007/08. Experts have called on the government to publish the findings of its consultation into the umbrella company market, which concluded over a year ago. The lack of action leaves […]