2018 Insights

UK productivity challenge ‘larger than Brexit’

 2nd July 2018
 Sam Leppard, Director
 recruitment consulting / engineering & manufacturing / procurement & supply chain

The UK’s productivity deficit is a larger challenge than Brexit, a Treasury minister has warned.

Robert Jenrick, exchequer secretary to the Treasury, called productivity the “big economic challenge of our generation” and compared the UK’s productivity deficit to that of the 1980s. He said digital innovation was how the UK would close the gap with

Top tips for improving work productivity when the temperature rises

 27th June 2018
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 industry news / procurement & supply chain

A new logistics park has been set up in North Leicestershire, and an international business has already agreed to take over one of the giant warehouse units.The company are called Kuehne + Nagel, and they currently operate in over 100 countries. They plan on using the warehouse unit as their main UK hub for their British operations – and this could result in a massive local job boom.