While many companies may have paid lip service to the issue of racism in 2020, the unconscious, and sometimes explicit, bias of racism runs deep.

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.

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

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.

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.

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