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By embracing a woke agenda, companies are empowering staff to simply remove any senior manager they do not like

In December last year the civil service scrapped unconscious bias training and urged other public sector employers to do the same. Photograph: The Businessman/Alamy Stock Photo When former KPMG boss Bill Michael resigned for telling his staff to stop “playing the victim card” and describing the concept of unconscious bias as “complete and utter crap”, he reignited an ongoing debate about workplace equality. “There is no such thing as unconscious bias, I don’t buy it,” Michael said in his now infamous virtual meeting. “Because...

In the late 80s and into the 90s, the British retail press was dominated by two quite flamboyant names. At that time, George Davies was heading up Next and delivering exponential growth through increased footprint. While sales and profits followed one trajectory, it seemed that his reputation was growing at a faster pace. The other contender for the airwaves was Gerald Ratner.

KPMG is reforming its governance structure after the resignation of its chairman this month over his outburst about “moaning” staff “playing the victim”.The Big Four accounting group said that it

KPMG will split the role of chair and chief executive, following the furore surrounding comments made by Bill Michael, its former senior partner and chair.