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We’ve gathered together the most useful articles from media around the world to keep you up to date with what’s going on and how it might affect your business

Flexible working more important than salary for three in four professionals (CityAM)

UK job vacancies reach 20-year high (BBC)

UK economy grows on camping and dining out (BBC)

Two in three UK firms expect to raise prices in Christmas run-up, poll finds (The Guardian)

The richest Americans became 40% richer during the pandemic (The Guardian)

Amazon opens first UK non-food store (BBC)

Nando’s and Deliveroo chiefs join hospitality council to help crisis-hit UK sector (The Guardian)

United Airlines to fire staff who refuse vaccine (BBC)

Next warns of staff shortages and price rises (BBC)

Quality Street’s new sweet proves popular (The Guardian)

British Rail logo designer appalled by green makeover ‘mess’ (The Guardian)

Pret to hire 3,000 new staff as city workers return (BBC)

Stop blaming private equity, without it small businesses would be strapped for cash (CityAM)

Rishi Sunak gives blessing to foreign firms snapping up UK businesses (The Guardian)

Inflation: Price rises see record jump as food costs soar in August (BBC)

Make December 31 end of tax year, says small business (Smallbusiness.co.uk)

One in seven adults plan to become entrepreneurs (Smallbusiness.co.uk)

Small businesses are collateral damage in social care tax hike (The Guardian)

Driver shortage: ‘I got a big pay rise overnight’ (BBC)

One in seven bookings failing to show up at restaurants (BBC)

Britons holidaying in UK give welcome boost to high street (The Guardian)

Delta Airlines imposes $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated staff (BBC)

Jobs market rebound has led to UK wage inflation and worker shortages, says Hays (The Guardian)

Mr Kipling maker Premier Foods offers staff hybrid working (BBC)

City figures warn London’s financial crown at risk if UK does not roll out digital Sterling (CityAM)

Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40% (BBC)

Top chief execs ‘paid more in a year than a UK worker gets in a lifetime’ (The Guardian)

Scrapped Covid rules bring fewer than 20% of UK city workers back to the office (The Guardian)

Google may cut pay of staff who work from home (BBC)

UK economy rebounds as Covid restrictions ease (BBC)

Brexit and Covid impact: More than 90,000 EU workers to have left UK hospitality jobs (CityAM)

WPP revenues back to pre-Covid levels as advertising rebounds (The Guardian)

Pret, McColls and Welcome Break in minimum wage fail (BBC)

UK’s economic recovery from Covid stalled in June amid ‘pingdemic’ (The Guardian)

CEOs told to ‘think before they tweet’ after Just Eat spat with Uber (The Guardian)

Car production hit by ‘pingdemic’ and global chip shortage (BBC)

Worker shortages bite as UK business activity stalls in July (CityAM)

CEO Secrets: ‘Four-day weeks are good for business’ (BBC)

Unilever warns prices will rise due to surge in raw material costs (The Guardian)

Government calls for ‘gradual return’ to offices over summer after 19 July (CityAM)

More clarity in return to work guidance would help firms avoid liability (The Guardian)

Covid safety guidance to firms in England criticised as ‘recipe for chaos’ (The Guardian)

Vauxhall owner Stellantis to invest €30bn in electric vehicles (BBC)

UK growth slows as computer chip shortage hits carmaking (The Guardian)

Private equity buying spree hits new record as British firms targeted (The Guardian)

Covid: UK’s furlough scheme starts to wind down (BBC)

Hospitality industry warns of looming crisis as staff forced to isolate (The Guardian)

Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland (The Guardian)

Elon Musk’s space broadband service Starlink to go public once revenue is ‘predictable’ (CityAM)

Lego develops first bricks made from recycled plastic bottles (The Guardian)

Inflation fears grow as UK factory prices surge (BBC)

Cashless society draws closer with only one in six payments now in cash (The Guardian)

Eviction ban on firms behind on rent is extended by nine months (BBC)

‘I’ll work 100-hour weeks to clear our Covid debt’ (BBC)

Brewdog boss vows to learn after ‘toxic culture’ criticism (BBC)

Where have all the UK workers gone? (BBC)

UK economy grows for third month in a row as Covid controls ease (The Guardian)

Swap Bounce Back debt for employee equity, say industry experts (Smallbusiness)

UK firms set to slash office space in pivot to hybrid work (CityAM)

Working from home: Call to ban out-of-hours emails from bosses (BBC)

UK business optimism hits five-year high, so why has London slipped? (CityAM)

UK not on course for return to 1970s inflation, says Bank official (The Guardian)

Covid: Small businesses’ account delays are over, insist banks (BBC)

Bytedance CEO stands aside to do more ‘daydreaming’ about the future (The Guardian)

UK inflation more than doubles in April as energy prices increase (The Guardian)

Musk’s UK visit fuels speculation a Britain-based Tesla plant is on the cards (CityAM)

Amazon set to hire 10,000 UK workers (BBC)

Along with Abba, double-digit inflation is a thing of the past (The Guardian)

Fund management ‘irretrievably broken’, says star investor (The Guardian)

UK car sales rebound after ‘one of darkest years in automotive history’ (The Guardian)

No full-time return to the office for over a million (BBC)

UK service sector growth hits seven-year high (BBC)

Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house (The Guardian)

One in seven shops lie empty after lockdown (BBC)

Restaurants struggle to find staff ahead of reopening (BBC)

Consumer confidence stalls amid fears of new variants and the cost of coronavirus (CityAM)

Covid costs push government borrowing to highest since WW2 (BBC)

Billionaire Sir James Dyson moves residency back to the UK (BBC)

Banks flee the City post-Brexit taking more than £900bn in assets with them (CityAM)

Hammerson: Shopping centre giant slashes rents in revival bid (BBC)

Caterpillars in court as M&S sues Aldi over Colin cake ‘lookalike’ (The Guardian)

Brexit: EU online deliveries to UK have halved (CityAM)

UK retailers join pubs and clubs in rejecting Covid-status certificates (The Guardian)

JP Morgan boss plans for ‘significantly’ less office space (BBC)

Bet365 boss earns £469m in a single year (BBC)

Deliveroo shares slump by 26% on London stock market debut (The Guardian)

UK economy bouncing back stronger than expected amid savings boom (The Guardian)

Nationwide office staff can work anywhere in UK when lockdown ends (The Guardian)

‘I can’t see myself going back to a five-day week’ (BBC)

Big investors shun Deliveroo over workers’ rights (BBC)

Number of small businesses in distress triple pre-Covid level (Smallbusiness)

Britain ‘heading for new era of austerity’, thinktank warns (The Guardian)

Economic outlook ‘unusually uncertain’ despite ‘rapid’ vaccine rollout (BBC)

Where to get your small business Restart Grant worth up to £18,000 (Smallbusiness)

Global chief executives say UK market is more attractive after Brexit (CityAM)

UK exports to European Union drop 40% in January (BBC)

Former Deliveroo executives launch 10-minute grocery delivery app in London (CityAM)

Amazon Fresh opens first ‘till-less’ grocery store in UK (The Guardian)

Budget 2021: key points at a glance (The Guardian)

Rishi Sunak eyes hiking corporation tax even higher to 25% (Smallbusiness)

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