UK productivity has been highlighted as an economic weakness for over a decade. Yet, in response to the pandemic, businesses have shown that they can utilise technology to create entirely new ways of working.

There are many different ways to boost productivity. One way is through investing in infrastructure. Another way is by making sure that people have access to high quality education. Find out more from our guest Bart van Ark, Professor at the Productivity Institute.

Capita announces today it has been re-selected by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to continue to manage the Gas Safe Register.

The experts in the management of pupil information for schools, Capita SIMS, will unveil its next generation, cloud-based management information system (MIS) at Bett 2018 (stand B190).

Capita has been re-selected by Westminster City Council to manage the authority’s revenues and benefits services for a further seven years, commencing November 2018, with the option to extend for three years, in a deal worth approximately £65 million over ten years.

Capita has secured a £5.9m four-year contract with Bolton at Home, to deliver IT services to support the Greater Manchester housing association in providing best-in-class service to its customers.

A digital transformation programme of revenues services and enhanced use of enforcement measures by two district councils, supported by Capita Local Government, has helped result in millions of pounds in council tax being recouped.

Successful businesses and economies are increasingly built on intangible or ‘knowledge assets’ rather than physical ones.

Capita has added an automation function to its benefits software, helping councils reduce claim processing times to less than two minutes - 20 times quicker than processing the same form manually.

The great reset of the pandemic has the potential to launch the UK’s productivity back on course, following record low levels in 2019 – but the key to unlocking post-pandemic productivity not only lies in further and greater technology adoption, but also in reskilling.