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News
- Goliath still winning in late payment epidemic (London Loves Business covers Xero’s inaugural Small Business Insights, showing 52% of invoices to small businesses were paid late in 2017)
- Related: 90% of public sector suppliers hit by late payments(London Loves Business covers FSB research)
- Gig economy workers grow increasingly anxious at lack of pension provision (CityAM covers new Demos report ‘Modern working: The age of self employment’)
- Barclays launches law tech incubator Eagle Labs (Elite Business)
- Perception of corruption in UK business rises (Economia covers EY research)
- Work, barely rest, repeat: Britain’s ‘too busy’ entrepreneurs (Fresh Business Thinking covers International Business Festival polling)
Opinion
- How freeze on startup incentives is making tech talent crisis worse (Jim Armitage, Evening Standard)
- Thinking big for social enterprise can mean staying small (Anne-Marie Slaughter, president, New America)
- The alternative to the four-hour workweek mindset (Daniel Tawfik, founder, Vonjour and Zen Patient)
- The Tories should ditch corporatism and champion the self-employed(Alan Lockey, head of modern economy programme, Demos writes about his latest research)
- Millennial entrepreneurs understand the power of profit (Sophie Sandor, director and producer of ‘Tianah’)
- We must demonstrate that capitalism is inherently fair and works in all our interests (Nick King, former special advisor to Sajid Javid, writes about his research agenda as the new head of business at the Centre for Policy Studies think tank)
- The importance of showing girls it’s OK to fail (Cristal Glanchai, author, Venture Girls)
Features
- Bloomberg: The numbers behind WeWork’s growing empire
- Elite Business: Will Italy’s startups ever be on par with the rest of Europe? Well, maybe
- Economist: Regulating virtual currencies and ICOs