By: Will Railton

I'm deputy money editor at City A.M. I focus on personal finance and investing. I'm particularly interested in macroeconomics, pensions and politics. Contact me at william.railton@cityam.com.

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Mental health: Know where you stand in the workplace

February 5, 2016

Mental health is an issue which businesses can no longer ignore. According to research from the Health Survey for England, more than one in four adults has been diagnosed with a mental health condition. While today’s society is more accepting of mental health issues, many workers still choose to hide their conditions. The Chartered Institute [...]
The efficiency paradox: How to improve every part of your business

February 3, 2016

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Managers today would do well to remember Aristotle’s teaching. In modern businesses, efficiency is often falsely equated with success, or over-emphasised as a means for achieving it. But the success of a business as a whole depends on more than beefing up, stripping down, or optimising [...]
Made In Taiwan: As China’s growth slows, promising stocks lie across the Formosa Strait

February 2, 2016

As China's earthquake rumbles on, the regional trading partners which have depended on its double digit growth for three decades are feeling the shocks. The Malaysian and Indonesian economies have suffered, but the manufacturing sectors in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are also inextricably tied to that of Asia’s largest economy. Exports account for 70 per [...]
The six second sweet spot: Opera Mediaworks’ Mark Slade on WAP and Walter White

February 1, 2016

Consumers may be spending more and more time on their mobiles, but the advertising industry has had a hard time convincing brands to follow them there. Now, things could be looking up. By the end of 2016, eMarketer estimates that mobile advertising will account for half of the £8.94bn spent on digital marketing in the [...]
How to make business travel bearable: If you need a Bloody Mary, it’s the tomato juice you’re after

January 27, 2016

From business class to spirits in the sky – few aspects of corporate life are glamorised quite like travel. Frequent fliers are more likely to remember their last business trip because of flight delays, jet-lag, and the inconvenience caused by a dead phone battery. This year, firms worldwide are expected to spend more on travel than [...]
The cost, by degrees, of a cold office: Chilly temperatures hit GDP harder than snow or heat-waves

January 26, 2016

In the heights of summer and the depths of winter, control of the office thermostat is a high privilege indeed. A 2014 study by One Poll found that only 24 per cent think that their office is the right temperature for working throughout the year, indicating how divisive the issue can be in many workplaces. But [...]
Virtual reality: The next frontier. Visualise’s Henry Stuart on motion sickness and the Swayze Effect

January 25, 2016

This is the year, so we are told, that virtual reality (VR) takes off. Hotly anticipated headsets from Oculus and Playstation are due for release later in 2016 and will finally bring VR into people’s homes. “We’re hugely excited,” says Henry Stuart, co-founder and chief executive of VR production company Visualise, which has produced around 60 [...]
Better on stormy seas than calmer water: Lessons from family-owned firms

January 20, 2016

Western business has long criticised the family-run firm. From succession disputes to their reliance on dual-class shares and pyramid structures to clip the wings of external investors, they’re not often held up as models of corporate achievement. But research by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that 40 per cent of French and German companies with [...]
How to make better decisions, faster: Follow Obama’s example and make certain choices routine

January 19, 2016

"Nothing comes to my desk that is perfectly solvable. Otherwise, someone else would have solved it. So you wind up dealing with probabilities,” Barack Obama told Vanity Fair in 2012. “Any given decision you make you’ll wind up with a 30 to 40 per cent chance that it isn’t going to work.” Yet decision paralysis [...]
Drinks all round: What the Internet of Things means for marketers

January 18, 2016

Before brands start talking about how they should embrace the Internet of Things (IoT), they first need to think about how they understand it.” According to SharpEnd founder Cameron Worth, marketers have been coming at the expanding digital ecosystem of interconnected objects from the wrong angle. “And if they keep talking about fridges,” he says, “I’m [...]

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