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With a strong background in Compliance and Financial Crime, Emilia Thomas has built an extensive network of established relationships, priding herself on making sure that her clients get to know her as a friend, as well as a consultant. Emilia joined team MERJE during lockdown 1.0 and here she describes what her role encompasses, her highs over the past 12 months and the cha...

In a recent survey, B2B software search site Capterra found that almost three-quarters (71%) of UK workers have reported experiencing a certain degree of “burnout” while working from home during the pandemic. The study, which analyses how working from home has affected motivation and stress levels, found that many workers said the boundaries between work and home life are “b...

There is no doubt that the coronavirus has had a significant impact on the jobs market, the results of which are still unfolding and will undoubtedly have long-term effects on the industry as a whole. The short-term impact on the recruitment sector has been equally significant and in many ways positive. We have seen a huge deviation in the way recruitment processes are manag...

During these testing times, it seems that we’re all becoming more mindful about the people and environment which surround us. This has given rise to Environmental and Social Governance (ESG), which refers to the central factors which measure the sustainability and societal impact of an investment in a company or business. It’s precisely these criteria which help to ascertain...

The term ‘office politics’ often brings with it negative connotations. They include the likes of gossip mongering, secrecy, one-upmanship and cliquey behaviour.  However, in light of global turmoil in the form of the pandemic, the state of play across UK and US politics and Brexit, we’re all without doubt craving the return of positive office politics and a sense of structur...

In the most recent instalment of our MERJE Meets series we speak with Phil Andrew, CEO of StepChange Debt Charity. As well as his role at the debt advice charity, Phil is a Housing Association NED & Remco Chair, a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Marketer & Treasurer. Here, Phil shares insights into how the events of the last 12 months have affected StepChange and how he...

Children’s Mental Health Week is upon us and this year’s theme is Express Yourself. The movement aims to highlight the importance of children and young people’s mental health, and particularly how they can express how they’re feeling - something which is incredibly important at all times and even more so throughout the trying events of the past year. It’s vital that we suppo...

In our latest MERJE Meets, we had the pleasure of chatting to award-winning barrister Sally Penni MBE. Sally is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing (RSA), a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and is one of Cranfield University’s School of Management’s 100 Women to Watch. She is the founder of Women in the Law UK and host of the Talking Law po...

With more than 10 years worth of industry experience, Michael Jackson joined MERJE in December, mere weeks before Lockdown 3.0, to establish our new Broking & Claims offering. In our latest MERJE Markets, Michael explains what his new role entails, while sharing the most up-to-date insights across the Broking & Claims sector and, not least, the impact of the current health c...

We’re increasingly recruiting and transitioning top professionals and senior business leaders into non-executive director's (NED) roles. Many of them feedback to us that it’s one of the best decisions they’ve ever made, providing them with that all-important next career move. But what exactly is a NED, we hear you ask?  Essentially a NED’s role is to provide a creative contr...