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UK employers are putting cost control ahead of business expansion. CIPD’s latest Labour Market Outlook shows confidence remains subdued, with hiring edging up slightly while pay growth and workforce plans stay tightly constrained.
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Chilli has relaunched with a sharper visual identity and website. The Leeds agency says its in-house refresh updates how it presents FMCG client work across digital and print.
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Britons are trading screens for shared summer experiences this year. Mastercard says spending is moving towards travel, food, and live events as consumers cut back on gadgets, streaming, and other purchases to spend more time offline.
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Internal comms teams still struggle to prove commercial impact clearly. Oak Engage found strong respect for the function, but weak measurement, heavy information overload, and widespread use of unofficial channels across organisations.
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Europe’s biggest listed companies face a widening futureproofing deficit today. A new DAX-AEX benchmark says environmental and social costs continue to weigh heavily on long-term value across some of the continent’s largest businesses.
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EU lawmakers have provisionally delayed key AI compliance deadlines further. The proposed changes would push back rules for many high-risk systems, while advisers say governance work should continue without delay.
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Menopause support is becoming a retention issue for employers nationwide. Pertemps says poor workplace support is pushing some mid-life women towards leaving employment ahead of new reporting requirements in 2027.
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ServiceNow is widening control over AI across enterprise technology estates. New controls, integrations, and observability features extend governance across models, agents, identities, and cloud services as more deployments move into production.
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SAP has struck two deals to strengthen enterprise AI foundations. The Dremio and Prior Labs acquisitions bring open data infrastructure and tabular model research closer to SAP’s analytics, automation, and agentic software stack.
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UK businesses are scaling AI faster than their safeguards mature. New research points to widening gaps in governance, data readiness, and workforce skills.