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February’s UK SME pay rose, but reform costs are looming. Employment Hero’s latest data points to stronger wages and hiring, but also to new cost pressures that could blunt the effect on household finances.
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Utilities communicators are preparing to leave in unusually high numbers. Murray McIntosh’s latest survey suggests churn is building across a sector already under pressure on trust, transparency, sustainability, and public accountability.
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Succession looks different when the business model is shifting underneath. Adobe’s handover arrives with strong results, expanding AI products, and clear investor unease about monetisation, competition, and pace, making the search for a successor less a question of continuity than of how much reinvention a mature software company can absorb.
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UK transformations are leaking value at an alarming rate today. Sullivan & Stanley says businesses lose £27m per £100m invested, as board confidence outpaces execution, adoption, and scaled AI delivery.
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AI can lift valuations while quietly eroding confidence inside organisations. The emerging tension is no longer technological capability alone, but whether companies can promise productivity, faster growth, and leaner structures to markets without convincing employees that the gains will be financed by diminished security, thinner career paths, and weaker reciprocity.
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Energy apprenticeships are drawing unprecedented interest across the UK now. ScottishPower says applications for 150 roles topped 6,000, up 25%, as it expands hiring to support a £24bn clean energy and grid investment plan.
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UK-Ireland summit announces £937 million investment creating 850 jobs. The investment involves 15 Irish companies in sectors like AI and renewable energy, aiming to boost economic growth across the UK, including London, Doncaster, South Wales and Scotland.
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Layoff language matters most when technology begins redrawing the contract. At Atlassian, the challenge is not only explaining fewer roles, but explaining why AI changes the skills mix, what retraining could not solve, and how leaders avoid sounding evasive when strategy, headcount, and empathy collide in one announcement to staff.
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Mattioli Woods says demand for benefits technology has accelerated sharply. The company reported 350% growth in client adoption since 2023 as employers modernise platforms ahead of workforce and regulatory change.
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Azoma has launched a protocol for managing AI commerce visibility. The company says AMP is designed to help brands control product intelligence across agentic commerce platforms and the wider web.