Tag: workplace crisis

Young Employees Want to Learn. Why Aren’t Employers Teaching Them?

Despite growing concerns over a widening skills gap, UK employers are largely falling short when it comes to supporting the very generation they believe holds the key to the future workforce. According to the latest Business Barometer from The Open...

Workplace woes and warming worlds: Microsoft cuts jobs, women battle health bias, and men drive up emissions

Men emit more carbon than women due to cars and meat consumption A new study finds that men in France produce 26% more greenhouse gas emissions than women from transport and food, largely due to higher red meat consumption and car...

UK workers lose hundreds of hours chasing information

A recent study by Lucid Software highlights a huge productivity drain in UK workplaces: over half of employees (53%) spend up to two hours each day just trying to locate essential information. This daily scramble adds up to 520 hours...

Skechers’ $9.4B buyout, aviation’s climate crisis, and the workplace loneliness epidemic

Skechers goes private in $9.4B deal amid tariff turmoil Skechers will be taken private by 3G Capital in a $9.42 billion buyout, the largest in footwear history. The move follows a sharp stock decline and mounting pressure from steep U.S. tariffs...