Covid-19

Morgan Stanley decides to stay in Canary Wharf headquarters

Morgan Stanley will stay at its office in Bank Street after a three-year search for a new HQ

The Wall Street bank will end a three-year search for a new UK headquarters

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Up to 50% of UK EY staff are not complying with its hybrid policy

EY UK monitors staff attendance amid hybrid-working rule breaches

EY follows law firms and investment banks by cracking down on staff flouting hybrid policies

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'It’s a people business and you need to build relationships. It’s hard to do that entirely remotely'

Is working from home dead for dealmakers? ‘The debate has moved on’

Dealmakers have quickly reverted to their hectic schedule of in-person meetings, regular flights to pitch deals and burning the midnight oil in the office

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Goldman Sachs scraps Covid-19 protocols

Bank points to recent guidance from CDC, which relaxed many pandemic precautions

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Financial Conduct Authority headquarters office building

FCA asks staff back into the office for 40% of work days

Regulator pushes ahead with hybrid working as it works out how to keep tabs on the City remotely

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Heathrow said it started recruiting in November in anticipation of capacity improving, and by the end of July it will have as many people working in security as it did before the pandemic

Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling tickets as passenger surge overwhelms airport

The airport said its assessment is that it cannot handle more than 100,000 passengers per day

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Boris Johnson is viewed as a ‘liability’ according to veteran private equity boss Jon Moulton

City heavyweights sour on Boris Johnson after ‘Partygate’

The ‘Partygate’ scandal has further weakened support for the Prime Minister in the Square Mile

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The latest cuts are to come in next month as Deloitte asks staff in closed premises to work from other buildings

Deloitte cuts London office space by a third in hybrid working overhaul

Professional services firm continues to scale back as it looks to a post-pandemic future

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Mayfair is still the spot of choice for most PE houses

Private equity firms overhaul London offices in the wake of Covid

The pandemic and a move to home working have caused the PE sector to rethink the space it needs

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Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak visiting the Fourpure Brewery in Bermondsey in October 2021

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to receive fines over lockdown parties

'Partygate' scandal to result in penalties for the prime minister and chancellor, 10 Downing Street says

A poll of 1,237 managers, 41% of whom work in the private sector, shows firms are offering staff flexibility over which days to come into the office, with two-thirds saying this was prompted by the pandemic

Hybrid working will hang around, according to managers

Leaders are moving to split time between home and the office, but challenges remain despite a potential productivity boost

Companies that aren't keeping up with healthier lifestyles risk falling behind, top asset managers say

ESG’s newest frontier emerges as heavyweight investors back health ventures

When it comes to ESG, investors have been focused on climate, but health has been pushed to the forefront during the pandemic

‘There’s a real risk that we develop an 'in crowd' and an 'out crowd' — literally the 'in crowd' is the one that’s in and the 'out crowd' the one that’s at home or not in the office,’ Georgina Philippou said

FCA official warns hybrid working risks creation of the ‘in’ and ‘out’ crowd

FCA official warns that leaders risk becoming ‘less visible on a human level’ as relationships become more ‘transactional’ in a virtual setting

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Job openings were up more than a third in Q4 2021 compared to Q4 2019

City vacancies up 40% on pre-pandemic levels as job switchers cash in on salary hikes

Morgan McKinley's London employment monitor showed spikes in the number of jobs available and in the number of jobseekers

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