When the anti-avoidance tax legislative reform – IR35 - rolls out to the private sector in April, employers of many contractors could be in a very difficult position.

No organisation operates in a vacuum. Rather, its interdependencies are many and manifest.

It’s become a cliché but the Covid-19 storm has not found us all in the same boat. The impact on income, on employment, even on the chances of contracting the virus and recovering, is hugely influenced by three factors – ethnicity, gender and poverty.

This year, International Women’s Day also marks roughly one year since the global emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The UK’s huge unemployment crisis is just beginning, and it is becoming clear that young people are going to be hugely impacted.

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.

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

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.

While many of us have effectively transitioned to at-home working, for some industries, like construction and infrastructure, that’s completely impossible.

If any of us were in any doubt about the importance of giving back to the people and communities around us, the Covid-19 pandemic has certainly brought it home.