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OPINION With more than half of the UK population playing online games since the onset of the pandemic, gaming sector users are diversifying on so many levels (age for one). The problem is, those working in the industry are not. With…

PROPERTY SPECIAL REPORT Property market specialists share their expectations over what shape the UK property market will take in 2022 now that there’s talk of The Bank of England loosening mortgage criteria. Plus the latest on the…

Freelancers, contractors and highly skilled professionals from the UK, including lawyers, will now be able to work in Australia temporarily and Aussie firms will no longer have to prioritise hiring Australian nationals first. The benefits…

IR35 expert, Qdos, has responded to the release of HMRC’s evidence put forward to the Finance Bill Sub Committee for their inquiry into IR35 reform in the private sector. Will the HMRC admit what the reform is really doing to British…

OnSkil claims it is shaking things up in IT contractor recruitment by basing its platform’s usability on Tinder, the dating app. The experience of finding a new partner via a dating app is very similar to finding a new job, since they…

Writer Jack Thorne ( "Help", “His Dark Materials”) has launched the pressure group Underlying Health Conditions (UHC) alongside “The Silence” star Genevieve Barr, production manager Katie Player (“Churchill) and producer Holly…

Which sectors and companies are hiring interims and why? Interim vacancies will continue to grow in 2022 as demand for flexible talent shows no signs of slowing down, according to new research from the Association of…

SPECIAL REPORT UK vulnerable to extreme risks due to government’s “default to secrecy” and lack of experts COVID-19 has exposed the UK’s risk management system so much that it is deemed as “deficient and too inflexible”…

HMRC is sending out a new batch of nudge letters to sellers of residential properties to make sure that they have paid the right amount of capital gains tax. The tax authority believes that some may owe another 8% on top of what they have…