2
The UK is the second most congested country in
the world, with UK drivers spending an extra 5
days a year in traffic, according to the
TomTom
Traffic Index 2017
. The UK is home to 11 of the
world’s 100 most congested cities. These are
Belfast, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Brighton
& Hove, Bournemouth, Sheffield, Hull, Bristol,
Newcastle and Leicester.
3
London is the third most expensive city in the
world for office space, behind New York and
Hong Kong, according to a report by Kit Out
My Office. The report looked at the cost of
leasing 10,000 square foot of office space and
associated business costs, such as property tax,
service charges and internet access.
10
Just 10% of UK employees are completely
satisfied in their job, research by Totem reveals.
Infrequent and impersonal communication from
bosses could be negatively impacting worker
satisfaction and motivation, with 74% of workers
never having seen their CEO or MD in their own
workplace and almost a third (31%) never having
met them. Almost half (48%) of workers describe
their CEO/MD as distant or remote and only
16% say they are ‘inspiring’.
25
Social media is the most effective lure to entice
targets of a phishing attack to click a link in an
email, according to a new study by phishd by
MWR InfoSecurity. Its analysis of 100 simulated
attack campaigns targeting almost a million
individual users shows that when emailed a
request to connect via a social media platform,
25% of users clicked the link to be taken to a
fake login screen. Of these, 80.85% downloaded
a file and 54.23% provided user credentials
such as username and password combinations.
Financial lures (e.g. sending an invoice to
download) were the least successful approach.
41
Four out of 10 UK workers (41%) take work
home with them at least once per week, and
the majority could be risking their health by not
working from an appropriate workstation, warns
etailer Furniture123.co.uk. Just one in three
(34%) of those who work from home does so at
a desk and only one in five (19%) uses an office
chair. A quarter (24%) work from their sofa.
54
Over half of UK consumers (54%) expect a
smartphone to become their main method of
payment within the next five years, according to
research by payments processor Worldpay. Two-
thirds (60%) of 24-34 year olds say they would
prefer not to have to carry cash.
91
Nine in ten (91%) workers say they lose
concentration through having to help colleagues
with IT issues. Research by Samsung Electronics
reveals that two-thirds (63%) of workers spend
between 15 and 45 minutes a day helping their
colleagues with these issues, equating to almost
four hours per week, per employee.
1,792
In 2016, 1,792 data breaches led to almost
1.4 billion data records being compromised
worldwide, 86% more than in 2015. This equates
to 44 records lost or stolen every second or
3,776,738 lost every day. (Source:
2016 Breach
Level Index,
Gemalto)
4 million
The number of companies in the UK has passed
four million for the first time. At the end of
February 2017 there were 4,005,093 companies
registered in the UK – London leading the way
with 1,082,600. A record 664,720 companies
were set up in the UK in 2016 (source: Inform
Direct, using data from Companies House and
the Office of National Statistics).
119 billion
The contribution of freelancers to the UK
economy soared to £119 billion in 2016, up
from £109 billion in 2015. IPSE, the Association
of Independent Professionals and the Self
Employed, points out that there are now around
two million freelancers in the UK – 43% more
than in 2008.
140 billion
The sharing economy is set to be worth £140bn
by 2025, driven by the popularity of on-demand
services like Uber, Deliveroo and Airbnb. PwC
expects the value of the UK’s sharing economy
to grow by £8 billion or 60% this year alone.
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in Numbers
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