UK firms need to invest to improve employees' skills

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Tess Lanning discusses the need to boost investment in training employees to help increase productivity and innovation in UK firms. Tess argues that UK businesses need a competitive strategy that supports higher job quality rather than taking the 'low road' compared to our European counterparts when it comes to investing to improve the skills of their workplaces.

UK firms need to invest to improve employees' skills

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