The cost of recovering from of a security breach for UK organisations has been estimated in a new report launched today by NTT Security, the specialised security company of NTT Group. The 2017 Risk:Value report, the company’s third annual study of business decision makers’ attitudes to risk and the value
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Applications are now open for cyber security startups to join a new nine-month programme that will become an integral part of developing a UK cyber security capability; in a sector now worth more than £22bn.
A groundbreaking initiative bringing together GCHQ and industry expertise to develop new cyber security technology is to be
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On the day that new IR35 legislation came into effect in the public sector, contracting expert Dave Chaplin, CEO and founder of Contractor Calculator says that some locum doctors who work as husband and wife teams will need a 50% pay increase to earn the same after the new taxes have been
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Women are better suited to leadership than their male counterparts in most areas, but definitely not all, according to Professor Øyvind L. Martinsen, head of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the BI Norwegian Business School.
Martinsen and colleague, Professor Lars Glasø, surveyed the personality traits of more than 2,900 managers – more
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APSCo has issued an immediate response to the last Spring Budget – March 2017, and finds the following:
• Significant costs for smaller recruitment firms relating to off payroll rules
• No review of taxation announced
• Concerns around suggestions that main driver for self-employment is tax
Responding to today’s budget, Samantha Hurley, Operations
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Firms are losing top talent through failures in succession planning and the movement of talent within their businesses, according to an HR Innovation Practices Observatory run by Politecnico di Milano School of Management.
Firms often endorse the traditional ‘career ladder’ model, which moves talent vertically within a single business function. Yet this
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The UK’s digital revolution is set to benefit from a multi-million pound boost, under plans announced by Communities Secretary Sajid Javid.
A recently published new Local Government Finance Bill published today (13 January 2017) will make it easier for companies to connect more homes and businesses across England to gold standard full fibre
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Ten of the most bizarre excuses used by unscrupulous bosses found to have underpaid workers the National Minimum Wage have recently been revealed by the government.
Excuses for not paying staff the minimum wage include only wanting to pay staff when there are customers to serve and believing it was acceptable
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According to a new report commissioned by Amicus Commercial Finance, well over half (61%) of invoices issued by UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) remain unpaid within the debtor day period. Of these, almost three-quarters (70%) of firms say they rely on getting paid during their debtor day period to
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As 2017 dawns, our thoughts inevitably turn to the business year ahead and what it holds. There are few who, at the start of 2016, expected it to end with Britain set to leave the EU and Donald Trump elected as President of the US.
But what does 2017 hold for the
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