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Employment reform is reaching rotas, payroll, and manager decisions. The UK’s Employment Rights Act 2025 will test workforce planning, absence management, manager capability, and productivity in organisations that have relied on informal flexibility.
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Trust is now the decisive currency in modern sales conversations. Paulo Cunha, CEO of Pipedrive, argues that informed buyers expect transparency, low-pressure engagement, and human judgement alongside AI-enabled sales tools.
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Growth policy is moving from ambition into delivery pressure today. The BCC says ministers should test whether economic measures change real decisions on skills, AI, trade, finance, and scaling.
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Employers face a heavier compliance timetable as reforms widen again. The Employment Rights Act implementation phase is moving into payroll, absence, contracts, rostering, and line-management practice.
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Gen Z is pulling physical retail into experience-led commerce again. New research suggests younger shoppers still value stores for discovery, connection, and memory-making.
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Mid-market expansion remains resilient despite harsher international trading conditions globally. Kreston’s Interpreneur Report shows optimism continuing alongside tariff, regulation, and geopolitical concerns.
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Cyber Essentials Plus now demands firmer proof of cyber hygiene. Jon Abott, CEO and Co-Founder of ThreatAware, explains how v3.3 tightens scope, MFA, and patching requirements as organisations face stricter evidence standards.
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Pay transparency rules are moving from principle into payroll practice. EU requirements will affect salary disclosure, employee pay-data rights, reporting, and equal-pay enforcement.
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Steel nationalisation powers would widen government intervention in industry again. The bill would create a framework for public ownership where ministers judge intervention to be in the public interest.
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Global ad growth faces a geopolitical stress test this year. WARC says Hormuz disruption could put nearly $94bn of projected advertising investment at risk.