Employers who would like to encourage their workforces to work in the office more frequently are considering creative ways of enticing them back to the office. One solution to consider in attracting hybrid workers back is to shift to smaller, greener premises. What could this trend mean for the future...

A recent amendment to the revised Financial Services and Markets Bill could have a significant impact on the regulation of cryptoassets in the UK. If passed into law, this amendment may represent a change in approach to the regulation of cryptoassets in the UK and potentially accelerate the timetable for...

In workplaces across myriad industries, hybrid working arrangements are now commonplace. An overwhelming number of employees are suggesting that they value this increased flexibility in their working arrangements over most other benefits, even including increased pay. Modern flexible working, which often combines remote work and on-site work, can have numerous...

One in four UK workers will leave the workforce in the next 25 years. For employers, that means holding onto valued older employees will become essential. But with five generations currently in the workforce, ensuring workers of all ages are equally engaged can be a real challenge. Older workers have...

The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has released guidance to assist organisations that use artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment to ensure that they are adhering to the UK government's AI "high level principles" for the regulation of AI. The government, per its AI white paper of March 2023...

Welcome to Osborne Clarke's Coronavirus Legal Briefing, our newsletter on business law issues in these sombre times. In this edition, we look at the guidance coming out of the UK as the lockdown rules for business become more complex. Stop press : After the text of this Briefing was written...

Individual buildings can contribute to the digital, sustainable and green 'smartness' of a smart city, but this requires collaboration – indeed, this is a third essential element that drives the smartness of the urban environment. Flexibility in the way the building is constructed and used drives the extent to that...

There are a range of ways in which individual buildings can contribute to the "smartness" – whether digital, sustainable or collaborative – of their wider urban environment and generate benefits for the wider community. Turning this potential into reality in the built environment depends heavily on planning policy and decision-making...

A smart city is a combination of the physical buildings and infrastructure that make it up, plus the management and operational systems that manage and monitor it. But we define "smart" as more than being connected and digitally enabled. A smart city is also collaborative and sustainable, aiming to deliver...