Crisis news in the UK | Page 2

An overview of news, trends and research in the category Crisis in the UK:

Professional services firms under pressure to cut Russia ties Under pressure to sever ties with Russia, several of the world’s largest professional services firms have closed their Russian offices.
07 March 2022
Test and Trace consultants come under further scrutiny After more than a year of controversy surrounding the public money spent on consultants for the Government’s misfiring coronavirus app, it has emerged that almost 2,000 consultants are still being pa
23 November 2021
Global exhibition market to return to pre-Covid size by 2023 Due to the severe impacts of the pandemic, the global exhibition market is expected to recover more slowly than initially thought.
19 November 2021
Lynne Darcey Quigley on why corporate insolvencies will spike The number of corporate insolvencies is about to erupt, but what is truly going on behind the increase? Lynne Darcey Quigley from commercial debt recovery advisory firm Darcey Quigley & Co discusses
16 November 2021
Number of corporate insolvencies rises as support measures unwind The number of corporate insolvencies seen across the UK rose by 26% in the third quarter of 2021.
09 November 2021
Cost efficiency focus exposed supply chains to greater Covid risks During the pandemic, the previous preoccupation of executives with growing productivity and constantly finding cost savings left companies over-stretched and vulnerable.
28 October 2021
2021 yet another dramatic year for airlines globally Despite the growing enthusiasm for international tourism in the coming three months, 2021 will still be a dramatic year for aviation.
22 October 2021
Businesses conduct under increased scrutiny due to pandemic With public scrutiny having mounted on businesses and governments during the pandemic, more than eight-in-ten companies expect investigations into their operations over the coming year.
24 September 2021
UK’s freelancers took major hit during pandemic A new study into the UK’s freelance economy has found that two-thirds of the sector’s workers were negatively impacted by the pandemic.
24 August 2021
Councils must play integral role in economic and social rebuild National and local governments must ‘rethink’ the role councils play in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, if they are to ensure they present their constituents with the right level of services, a
27 July 2021
Halving of UK insolvencies prompts fears of 'zombie nation' Despite the continued financial crisis seen during the pandemic, the number of administrations and receiverships has plummeted during 2021.
22 July 2021
Test and Trace spends £1 million per day on Deloitte consultants UK Parliament’s spending watchdog has found that the Government’s dependence on consultants to improve its Test and Trace app is yet to diminish.
02 July 2021
Covid-19 is impacting mental health of independent consultants The Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on the mental health of consultants, according to a new report by Movemeon.
30 June 2021
Bosses failed to adequately support women during lockdown More than half of women in the workforce are less optimistic about their career prospects today than before the pandemic, while almost six-in-10 are planning to leave their job in the coming 24 month
08 June 2021
Violence toward retail workers spikes during pandemic Data released by the representative body of the UK’s retail sector has shown that shopworkers were subjected to a sharp increase in abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic.
28 May 2021
How the UK's small and mid-sized businesses adapted to the pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic has forced small and mid-sized businesses SMBs to adapt to new working conditions.
27 May 2021
Studies warn that unvaccinated workers could prevent the return to work With the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine across the UK, lockdown measures are slowly being lifted – meaning the potential return to the workplace is drawing closer.
21 May 2021
Real estate issues continue to hit retailers hardest Now that half of the UK population has received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccination, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel, and people are beginning to talk about what the proper
14 May 2021
Most FTSE companies adjusted executive pay during pandemic UK-listed companies have been factoring in the impact of the ongoing pandemic into executive pay, according to an analysis of Alvarez & Marsal.
11 May 2021
Covid-19 sees more than 1 billion out of work globally Just over 1 billion adults lost their jobs or businesses as a result of the Covid-19 recession.
10 May 2021
Kroll's Benjamin Wiles on paving the way for bounce back Britain As part of the UK government’s efforts to ensure the economy remained buoyant as a result of the pandemic, a peacetime record of £303 billion was borrowed during 2020, on top of the nation’s already
03 May 2021
Covid-19 is not the most disruptive force, says AlixPartners What is the most disruptive force in business today? Turns out, it’s not Covid-19 – according to a new AlixPartners survey.
28 April 2021
Life after lockdown to be risk-averse and more selectively social With an end to the pandemic seemingly on the cards in the not-so-distant future, the question remains: how has the last year of lockdown changed people’s habits in the long-term? According to a new s
08 April 2021
NHS Test and Trace: Building a team of 50,000 in four months It has been more than nine months since NHS Test and Trace was launched on 28 May 2020, in direct response to the growing pandemic in the UK.
01 April 2021
Coronavirus pandemic cost UK economy £250 billion The UK has missed out on hundreds of billions of pounds in gross value added over the last year, according to a new study.
29 March 2021
Four ways how the crisis is impacting private equity value creation Alejandro Alvarez, a partner at Ayming, explains how value creation processes by private equity firms are being impacted by the Covid-19-induced downturn, and outlines a number of strategic and opera
25 March 2021
How consultancies can win a bigger slice of a smaller pie At a time when a number of segments within the consulting industry are seeing lower demand amid the Covid-19 crisis, Gary Williams, the founder of professional services business development coaching
17 March 2021
Why profitability has to be top of mind for consulting firms In these straitened times, and facing a complex landscape including mounting competition and an unpredictable environment, financial considerations are top of mind for management consultancies.
15 March 2021
Women’s jobs hit hardest by Covid-19 The slow progress being made to equitably include women in the UK workforce is at risk of being obliterated by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new white paper.
10 March 2021
UK output sinks alongside business confidence A new study has suggested that lockdown restrictions in January caused UK business output to fall at a rate not seen since April 2020.
18 February 2021
Government and PA select three rapid Covid-19 test producers The UK Government has selected three British companies for a contract to manufacture up to 2 million rapid Covid-19 tests per day. The selection process was overseen by PA Consulting.
15 February 2021
400,000 jobs at risk due to high street slowdown The ailing UK retail market could see huge swathes of redundancies throughout 2021, according to a new study.
11 February 2021

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