Janina Conboye

Gaming at work, getting ahead with kindness, and putting workers first

UK charitable foundations with collective assets of more than £12bn are giving away only a small fraction to good causes each year, according to a think-tank analysis. Hundreds of grant-making trusts and foundations (GMTFs), including the Eranda Rothschild and Mikhail Khodorkovsky foundations, were identified in the research by Pro Bono Economics shared exclusively with the Financial Times. The analysis showed that if GMTFs distributed 3 per cent or more of their assets, this would generate at…

BT is responsible for installing superfast broadband in millions of UK homes and businesses. But when it came to its own offices, the technology was not up to scratch. Meetings at its old City of London headquarters were regularly thwarted by bad connections. The technology “just didn’t make the grade”, according to the team within BT charged with finding and developing a new office site. BT is one of many businesses that have moved their workforces to new, more appealing premises as they encou…

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