While Covid has put the brakes on a lot of things – normal schooling, visiting family and friends, holidays and music festivals, commuting and meetings in the office, it has enabled and accelerated the uptake and development of a number of other trends.

Ollie Flegg looks at three key industry trends to see how they might influence customers’ attitudes towards motor finance - and where the sector could turn that to its advantage.

Perhaps surprisingly, a huge number of companies have adapted to the changes necessitated by the threat of Covid-19 and have recognised some of the benefits of a flexible workforce.

The overly optimistic amongst us may be thinking that returning to conventional working will be easy. But the situation we’re in, truly is unprecedented.

These turbulent times might not look like the best time to invest in your workforce: an uncertain economic future paired with unpredictable future skills needs make it a risk that may not seem worth taking.

In partnership with WIRED magazine, we spoke to a group of business leaders to find out how they’re planning to survive and thrive in a Covid-19 centric economy.

Customer Experience Director Charlie Whitworth reflects on the latest Customer Satisfaction Index and how Covid-19 has thrown the human factor into sharp relief.

World Youth Skills Day (15th July) comes as youth unemployment is soaring due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jack Parsons is a 25 year old, award-winning digital entrepreneur and CEO of The Youth Group which is building a meaningful group of youth-first solutions, products, and services to create action and jobs for young people.

Innovation isn’t working. At least, the old style of innovation isn’t. It can’t be – look at the number of established, iconic brands that have fallen foul of disruption over the past few years.