Jessica Newman – deputy news editor,
Property Week
Lynda Shillaw – chief executive, Harworth Group
David Silverman – executive director, Derwent London
Harvey Soning – founder and chairman, James Andrew International
Jace Tyrrell – chief executive, New West End Company
Tom Welton – executive director, Shaftesbury
With Mipim postponed,
Property Week swapped Cannes for Covent Garden and hosted a lunch at The Ivy alongside sponsors James Andrew International and the New West End Company to debate issues ranging from diversity and the reputation of the real estate sector to the high street and the future of the office.
Fire safety
The discussion kicked off with one of the most urgent issues facing the property industry: the cladding crisis. Urban&Civic chief executive Nigel Hugill noted that the problems with fire safety do not just affect leaseholders, but housing associations too: “Some housing associations have a legal and moral responsibility for fire safe
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at Bradley, comments: “Even with being restricted to outside only service, we’ve been pleasantly surprised at the level of demand we’ve seen over the last 3 weeks. This has however presented some challenges with resourcing. Like many others in our industry, as reopening approached we experienced a wave of resignations due to staff deciding to leave the industry and based on our initial expectations for outside reopening, we thought we would be ok. However, it quite quickly became apparent that we needed to recruit. Recruitment for chefs and full time front of house staff has proved extremely difficult. We’re seeing low numbers of applications and experiencing high levels of no shows to interviews and trial shifts. Job seekers are understandably weary of applying for jobs in the hospitality industry after the turbulence of the past 13 months, but businesses like mine are at the point where once we do reopen inside, if applicant numbers do not increase we may have to look at
Stonegate launches head office career pathway
Stonegate Group has launched its new in-house training pathway, Albert’s Interesting Map to Success, or AIMS.
The pathway has been designed for the company’s head office support staff and is available across all roles – amounting to more than 600 different specific learning pathways from level two, all the way to level seven (masters level).
AIMS hopes to engage in excess of 1,000 support staff, across both the managed and lease and tenanted divisions, once established.
The pathway has been designed to include both online and in-person learning to reflect the changes of the last 13 months, allowing delegates access to all course material to study in their own time, but without losing the invaluable components of face-to-face learning.
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