Crisis news in the UK | Page 5

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

Preparing global supply chains for the second wave of pandemic According to supply chain transformation expert Gopal Iyer, supply chains must evolve to learn lessons from the initial outbreak of Covid-19 if they are to withstand the pressures of a second wave.
12 August 2020
Women feel less supported by bosses amid pandemic According to respondents of a recent survey, women feel less able to rely on their employers for help in times of crisis.
05 August 2020
How Covid-19 is shifting priorities in the boardroom The forecast of hundreds of global managing directors and board members remain negative for the duration of 2020, while sales figures in 2021 are anticipated to be lower than pre-Covid-19 levels.
03 August 2020
How lockdown changed the norms of consumer behaviour The lockdown brought in to slow the spread of Covid-19 in 2020 had a dramatic impact on the global economy, not least because it has shifted long-held consumer behaviours that retailers are having to
29 July 2020
KPMG to shed up to 200 UK jobs amid dented revenues Big Four professional services firm KPMG is reportedly mooting the axe for as many as 200 of its UK employees.
28 July 2020
How Covid-19 will shift priorities across the financial services industry Amid a health, societal and economic crisis, financial services will be looked to as a pillar of recovery by governments, organisations and individuals alike.
21 July 2020
How Newton Europe supported the rapid manufacture of ventilators Operational consultancy Newton Europe has helped a consortium of firms in the UK produce more than 11,000 emergency ventilators in just 12 weeks.
17 July 2020
Covid-19's impact on the independent consulting market Much has been written about the impact of coronavirus on leading consulting firms and the industry as a whole.
15 July 2020
Five ways procurement must evolve in the post-Covid world According to procurement expert Jeremy Smith, the world has changed drastically over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, and so the industry must evolve to meet a diversity of new requirements.
14 July 2020
Accenture to cut 900 jobs across UK operations Professional services firm Accenture is reportedly planning to cut between 700 and 900 jobs in the UK, as it tries to cut costs to deal with the coronavirus crisis.
09 July 2020
KPMG, HFW and Augusta Ventures to support Covid-19 legal disputes As many companies struggle to overcome problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic, HFW, KPMG and Augusta Ventures have announced a non-exclusive project to support them.
08 July 2020
Independent development consultants hard hit by Covid-19 All aspects of the travel-intensive consulting industry have been hit hard by the Covid-19 international travel ban, however those specialising in international development have been impacted worse t
07 July 2020
Majority of workforce suffering from lock-down lethargy Almost 90% of UK workers are suffering from some level of lethargy while working from home, according to a new study.
03 July 2020
Millennials put off by promotions referencing Covid-19 With a number of companies claiming to celebrate the efforts of their staff amid Covid-19, but failing to actively support them, a majority of Millennial customers feel negatively toward brands refer
02 July 2020
Wigan Athletic appoints Begbies Traynor for administration Championship club Wigan Athletic has gone into administration, becoming the first English professional club to do so since the coronavirus pandemic began.
02 July 2020
Pandemic to redistribute international student flows Universities in the UK and US look set to lose ground among international students, thanks to their countries’ responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
29 June 2020
Broadcast pressures see European football end lock-down With Project Restart and its equivalents having seen football resume in England, Spain, Italy and Germany, a new report has shown how important broadcast revenues may have been in pushing clubs to pu
26 June 2020
Premiership Rugby calls in PwC to guide restart plans Professional services giant PwC has been called on by Premiership Rugby to help plans to restart the season.
26 June 2020
Private equity on the prowl for distressed companies With the Covid-19 crisis and the emergent global recession driving down acquisition prices, private investors look set to make use of the buyer’s market sooner rather than later.
25 June 2020
Deloitte cuts 7,000+ jobs in US, Australia and India Deloitte could be set to offload more than 10,000 of its global staff in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
23 June 2020
Employers neglect Cycle to Work scheme despite workers' commuting fears As the Covid-19 lock-down eases, employees are still uneasy about the health risks which come with public life.
22 June 2020
UK workers uncomfortable with August return to work Nearly two-thirds of Britons expect to return to work by the end of August, but many feel uncomfortable with the news.
18 June 2020
12 macro-economic trends creating post-covid's new normal The current health pandemic is creating a number of discontinuous macro environment shifts.
17 June 2020
Research suggests football can be played safely during Covid-19 While the likes of Scotland, France and the Netherlands have ended their footballing seasons prematurely to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the top two tiers of English football are about to join
17 June 2020
Grant Thornton makes redundancies to weather Covid-19 crisis As it braces for a 20% fall in profits, Grant Thornton has become the first top-tier professional services firm to announced redundancies during the coronavirus pandemic.
16 June 2020
Working from home has lifted productivity and work-life balance Eden McCallum has released the third version of its Covid-19 survey series, revealing how the sentiment of European business leaders has changed over the past three weeks.
10 June 2020
What is organisational resilience and how do you build it? For organisations to successfully come through the Covid-19-induced pandemic and bounce back stronger from the crisis, organisational resilience is key.
09 June 2020
CIL supports Tharsus with launch of social distancing system CIL Management Consultants has supported Tharsus with a strategic market mapping exercise for its social distancing product, Bump.
09 June 2020
MCA Awards goes virtual for 2020 ceremony The representative body of the UK’s consulting sector has announced its annual awards ceremony will take place digitally for the first time in its history.
08 June 2020
One in five freelance consultants and contractors in trouble A new research estimates that around one in five independent consultants and contractors fear having to stop their business amid the fallout of demand caused by the Covid-19 crisis.
08 June 2020
ICT players remain relatively resilient to Covid-19 A strategic and financial analysis on the potential impact of Covid-19 on B2B-focused ICT businesses has found that the industry will likely remain relatively resilient to Covid-19 over a two year fr
04 June 2020
Ensure Covid-19 doesn't have a lasting impact on mental health Work may have changed forever as a result of the ‘new normal’ triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
04 June 2020

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