The New Year should be a time of hope for business, but too often creates challenges both new and familiar. Winter will bring freezing temperatures, which will make heating the UK’s predominantly old and inefficient building stock very expensive. To illustrate, a record 143 billion cubic feet of gas was consumed in the US in early January, pushing prices up four per cent in a matter of days.
What’s more, absenteeism, which costs businesses £29 billion each year, can grow into a persistent problem when it’s cold. Sickly staff, struggling through a cold or flu, are less happy, less…
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