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January rush sees application rates soar across the UK

January rush sees application rates soar across the UK, as both candidates and businesses make a confident start to the year.

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Global business leaders forced to act against moral judgement

Business pressures have forced three quarters of business leaders to make a moral judgement against their own ethical principles in the last three years.

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Lack of business savings placing strains on UK self-employed

Poor business resilience and a lack of business savings put freelancers and sole traders at risk of financial hardship.

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Cybersecurity and cloud top SME technology plans for 2018

Although the proportion of small businesses planning to invest in new technology is lower than for larger businesses, almost half of small businesses will invest in cybersecurity and cloud computing this year.

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Unpaid staff overtime worth £1.6 billion weekly

New research finds UK small and medium-sized business staff working one additional unpaid day of overtime every week, leading to stress and the urge to change career.

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Talent shortages endangering the UK’s growth engine

Smaller and growing businesses are struggling to hire the right talent, according to the most recent survey from Smith & Williamson.

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Business confidence jumps to its highest level for nine months

Lloyds Bank’s Business Barometer for January 2018 shows overall business confidence increased by seven points to a nine-month high of 35 per cent.

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Slow feedback is biggest frustration for jobseekers in the UK

Top three frustrations of jobseekers about the recruitment process are slow feedback, poor communication and delayed decision making, according to new research.

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Business confidence jumps to its highest level for nine months

Lloyds Bank’s Business Barometer for January 2018 shows overall business confidence increased by seven points to a nine-month high of 35 per cent.

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Slow feedback is biggest frustration for jobseekers in the UK

Top three frustrations of jobseekers about the recruitment process are slow feedback, poor communication and delayed decision making, according to new research.

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Thousands expected to register their own business on eBay this January

eBay has crunched its data, and is seeing a surge in new business registrations this month. While January has historically been the most popular month to start a business, the platform is seeing a 30 per cent bump in business registrations as aspiring entrepreneurs increasingly seek to diversify their income or become their own boss.

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Mid-market businesses plan exports outside Europe in response to Brexit

In response to Brexit, 62 per cent of mid-market business leaders plan to increase their investment in exports beyond the EU.

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Companies to spend 172 hours a month simply on GDPR data searches

Companies will spend eight hours a day on average, or a full-time employee all day, trawling databases to meet GDPR requirements, research discovers.

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Lack of time is the single biggest barrier to innovation

Teams working at full capacity lack the time and miss the opportunity to try new, different and better ways of innovation in their business.

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