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WHETHER it’s part of your regular working week or you are a doing it for the first time – these unprecedented times are now seeing thousands of people working from home.

As leading training provider, Qube Learning, navigates itself through a significantly uncertain time, CEO Joe Crossley is working consistently with his employees to ensure there is a remote solution for students and the businesses they work with.

Now that the switch to remote working has been made, leaders should turn their attention to maintaining morale and a positive workplace culture, writes Caroline Gleeson, CEO and co-founder of Occupop

Without a doubt, the Coronavirus has hit UK businesses hard and in less than two weeks the recruitment industry has effectively been brought to its knees with online revenues being reduced by around 70% - almost literally, overnight.

Recent figures from the Office of National Statistics show that since auto-enrolment came into play in October 2012, the proportion of employees in the UK with a workplace pension has increased from 47% to 77%. While this is a huge step in the right direction, the pensions industry still has a long way to go and now faces fresh challenges.

On 20 March 2020 the government announced the launch of its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which is intended to pay employees who would otherwise be redundant or subject to a requirement to remain away from work without pay and are instead designated as "furloughed"

While jobs are being lost during the coronavirus crisis, they are also being created, a leading recruitment group is keen to point out.

A FREE online recruitment portal for hospitality and tourism sector staff out of work as a result of the COVID-19 crisis is now live.

For any organization, the prerequisite for success is an effective top down as well as lateral communication.

Wave is a recruitment technology provider that works with over 400 recruitment companies and analyses millions of applications each year.

By Emma Parkins, TBOS

In these unprecedented times, recruitment businesses are swiftly reviewing their strategies, adapting day-to-day processes, reworking client and candidate communications and trying to form some stability and new modus operandi.

Imagine if you could find the perfect talent in a fraction of time by matching candidates with your job openings!

The government advice is clear - to slow the spread of Coronavirus and maintain social distancing we should all work from home if we can.