Category: The Wind Down
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Wind Down 18th Sept 2023
Cash is trying to be King once moreIndustry body UK Finance this week revealed that for the first time in the last decade the use of cash has risen 7% which equates to 400,000 more transactions rising to 6.4 billion cash payments since 2021. For a long time, cash has been a declining payment method,…
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Wind Down 11th Sept 2023
Happy 25th Birthday GoogleBorn in 1998 this year Google turns 25 years old this week which is quite a significant milestone and what a ride it has been! Starting life as the brainchild of Larry Page and Seregey Brin while students at Stanford University just hoping to better organise web pages online. It went on…
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Wind Down 28th Aug 2023
Apparently we’re all really angry at workGallups State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report has reported that 1 in 5 British employees say they “feel angry at work” which is a big increase from last year, and unsurprisingly significantly higher than our European colleagues. The report has some quite interesting, but probably not surprising, findings…
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Wind Down 21st Aug 2023
Please don’t run out of coffee on my watchCoffee is life and consumption around the globe has doubled in the past 30 years and shows little signs of stopping, but we may now have a real problem with estimates predicting global consumption to be 6 BILLION cups of coffee a day by 2050, a figure…
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Wind Down 7th Aug 2023
Please do not email me on a SundayApparently, someone paid for some research by Axios HQ that found that the best time to email your colleagues is in fact between 3pm and 9pm on a Sunday as they are likely to be read first, with the open rate a staggering 86% compared to between 50%…
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Wind Down 24th Jul 2023
“Rip-off” degreesRishi Sunak has pledged to crack own on “rip-off” degrees that don’t lead to a graduate job by essentially forcing English Universities to limit student numbers to “underperforming courses” which is determined on some very binary metrics of graduate employment rate and the drop out rate of the course. Apparently too many young people…
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Wind Down 17th Jul 2023
Why aren’t accountants happy being accountants?Despite not being part qualified anymore, I still get PQ magazine because actually I find it more useful for CPD than most networking options my actual professional body offers and the August front page asks the questions why aren’t accountants happy being accountants? TLDR; it just sucks, but cloud platform…
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Wind Down 10th Jul 2023
So are we all moving the Threads now?This week saw Meta launch is rival app to Twitter, it looks like Twitter, it acts a lot like Twitter but apparently its called Threads. As at writing there are currently 97 million Thread users registered, when it had passed the 5m sign-up mark within the first four…
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Wind Down 3rd Jul 2023
Thames Water drowning in debtThames Water is in trouble, this week Sarah Bentley resigned with immediate effect after 3 years in post as CEO, a reason was not given but I suspect it’s due in part that the auditors are due to sign off their accounts next week and I doubt it will be clean,…
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Wind Down 26th Jun 2023
Milton Keynes robot delivery service really delivers!Milton Keynes the ‘field of dreams’ 22 million trees, 5,000 acres of parkland, 15 lakes, 11 miles of canal, 130 roundabouts, more bridges than Venice, more shoreline than Jersey, concrete cows and a robot delivery service that has increased spending in the city’s restaurants by £10m a year, reduced…
Rachael McKelvey 