‘People are totally missing the point’: IWG’s CEO on why where you work doesn’t matter
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Unusually for the chief executive of a workspace provider, IWG boss Mark Dixon doesn’t believe peoples’ work location really matters. “What your people are doing and how you’re managing them is what's most important. Where they’re doing it is the last thing you should look at,” he says.
His comments come amid a renewed effort from companies,?including Amazon, JP Morgan and WPP, to force employees back to the office. For Dixon, these businesses are “totally missing the point”. HR editor Sam Forsdick spoke with him to find out why. Read more.
Do you really need to care about?Deepseek?
Last month, the announcement of a new model from the Chinese startup Deepseek sent tech companies on the Nasdaq into a tailspain.
Deepseek claims its AI assistant was trained and developed at a fraction of the cost of most large language models (LLMs) and uses less data and energy to?run.?
Chipmaker Nvidia alone lost nearly $600bn (￡484bn) in value following the announcement. OpenAI – which has itself been accused of using data without permission – accused the disruptor of stealing its training data. The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, assembled “war rooms” of engineers to figure out how the startup achieved its?model. But what, asks tech writer Tamlin Magee , do British business leaders really need to know about this new AI model? Read more.
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How should finance leaders approach?audits??
Audits are inevitable in business, but they are often daunting for firms under the spotlight. The process is tremendously time-consuming and involves seemingly endless questions and demands from both auditors and internal stakeholders.
Lacking planning and preparation, finance teams could easily be overwhelmed by an audit. In fact, more than three-quarters (77%) of UK finance leaders say the disruptive nature of audits causes them anxiety, according to data from Inflo, an audit firm. Alarmingly, nearly 1 in 5 (17%) say the mental toll is enough to drive them from their job.?
So, asks finance writer Sam Birchall , what can finance leaders do to ease their audit anxieties and avoid nasty surprises??Read more.
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