Jim Ratcliffe will close the staff canteen at Old Trafford and replace the free lunches currently on offer with fruit. Manchester United’s largest single minority shareholder will also implement a similar move at United’s Carrington training base, with only players receiving lunch for free. Non-playing staff there will be offered soup and bread. The news…

Starbucks plans to lay off 1,100 corporate employees and close several hundred open of vacant job positions, the company announced on Monday. The layoffs are the largest in the company’s history. “Our intent is to operate more efficiently, increase accountability, reduce complexity and drive better integration,” CEO Brian Niccol wrote in a letter to staff.…

BP is expected to ditch a target to ramp up renewable energy generation by 2030 as part of a shift back towards fossil fuels when it presents its strategy to investors this week. The chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, is poised to tell shareholders that the oil and gas company is scrapping its target to increase…

Name: Micro-retirement. Age: Coined in 2007, but surging in popularity. Appearance: Like quiet quitting, but luxe. Is this one of those things where gen Z takes an old concept, gives it a new name and pretends they invented it? Not at all. The concept is taken from a 2007 book called The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy…

Starbucks’ corporate headquarters seen in Seattle. The company announced its Q2 earnings on 27th Apr 2021.  Toby Scott | Lightrocket | Getty Images Starbucks will lay off 1,100 corporate employees and will not fill several hundred other open positions, the coffee chain’s CEO Brian Niccol said Monday. The cuts will not affect workers at the…

Jo Nemeth has lived without money for 10 years. When her story was recently published in the Guardian, some readers were critical of her decisions and described her as a “bludger”. Jo speaks to Reged Ahmad about living and working in a nine-person household, the importance of community and the limits of moneyless living You…