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XPO Logistics set to compete in 2024 Big Logistics Diversity Challenge in Nottinghamshire for fourth year in a row

Stuart Mitchell

XPO, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, is entering a team of 10 colleagues to participate in the Big Logistics Diversity Challenge taking place at Newark Showground in Nottinghamshire on Thursday, 20 June. This is the fourth year in a row that the company has participated in the high-energy event, which brings together teams from logistics companies to participate in mental and physical team-building events in support of inclusion and diversity. Towards the end of the day, teams with the highest scores will be…

Research finds AI, burnout, inclusivity and falling budgets keeping marketers awake at night

Stuart Mitchell

New research from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) highlights the issues keeping marketers up at night in 2024. The latest Impact of Marketing report suggests that progress on diversity and inclusion is stalling with 44% of respondents stating that their team has not become more diverse within the last 12 months.  Only around half of those surveyed (56%) indicated that they felt that progress had been made on diversity and inclusion within their teams. Some respondents reported seeing a greater diversity of ethnicities (28%), genders (12%), and ages (11%)…

The Payments Association echoes industry calls for policymakers and the fintech sector to support consumers with community finance

Stuart Mitchell

With millions of people in the UK struggling to access affordable financial services, The Payments Association is calling attention to underutilised solutions including community finance options like credit unions. The association’s newly released paper: “Redefining Community Finance: Unlocking Pathways to Financial Inclusion” highlights the potential of these institutions but also the significant barriers hindering their growth. The Payments Association’s Financial Inclusion Working Group has the specific purpose to inform and collaborate with government, regulators and third sector bodies, providing clarity on innovations and solutions in payments that can reduce financial…

Trust in politicians, business and media to act ethically is lowest in four years: ethics charity writes to major parties

Stuart Mitchell

The British public’s trust in politicians, businesses and media to behave ethically is at its lowest level in four years, according to a long-standing annual survey from the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE). Just 14% of 2067 UK adults polled trust that politicians behave ethically in 2024, only one-third would say the same for businesses (35%) and only a fifth of the public believes media behaves ethically (21%). The Attitudes of the British Public to Business Ethics 2024 survey, now in its 21st year, also highlights the ethical business issues…

World leaders call for urgent action to advance social justice at the Inaugural Forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice

Stuart Mitchell

World leaders joined partners of the Global Coalition to call for stronger efforts to deliver social justice on Thursday. “Never has social justice been so crucial for humanity,” said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, who was the keynote speaker at the Inaugural Forum for the Global Coalition for Social Justice, as co-chair of the Global Coalition for Social Justice Coordinating Group. © ILO Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil addresses the Inaugural Forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice “No country can resolve the…