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Nov 20, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Grant Feller
Just a few months ago, more veteran politicians than ever found themselves out of a job. In July, 175 incumbent Conservative MPs were shown the exit door by their constituents. And I feel sorry for them. Really. It’s tough to start again. Ten years ago, my annual salary was £8,000, less than my teenage daughter brought in from her nannying job.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
research-live.com | Liam Kay- McClean |Grant Feller
Speaking on a panel session at the conference in London on 3rd October, Stuart Hotchkiss, advocacy manager at British Gas Business, said that due to restricted resources in the business-to-business insight team, he had warned that requests for research would be prioritised for those who had been seen to use the findings in previous projects. “We told people ‘if you don’t use the research we do for you, you go to the back of the queue next time you want something’,” Hotchkiss said.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Grant Feller
Look up the word “decline” in the thesaurus and you get alternatives such as slump, failure, weakening, enfeeblement and – here’s the important one – “on the skids”. Because if you were born before 1969 and are still foolish enough to be in employment, that’s where your career is right now. On the skids. At least it is if you listen to the world’s biggest recruitment company, Indeed.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Grant Feller
I envy Sir Keir Starmer. Not for the job he’s about to get, nor his commitment to solving society’s most intractable problems. But for the child-like naivete in his endearing devotion to family. In one of his last interviews before possibly becoming prime minister, he admitted that he and his wife Victoria are adamant that they’ll down tools at 6pm at the end of the working week to sit around the dinner table with their two teenage children, no matter what.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Eleanor Mills |Grant Feller
The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. FIRST PERSONBritish middle-aged men and women are some of the loneliest in the world – something that both Eleanor Mills and Grant Feller found out the hard way. On Loneliness Awareness Week, they explain how they overcame it – and how you could, tooIt’s a strange thing to find yourself lonely in mid-life. It creeps up slowly as the kids leave home, or friends move away.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Grant Feller
In a few months, more veteran politicians than ever will be out of a job. It may be Humza Yousaf today, but soon almost 70 Conservative MPs, boasting a combined 1,000 years of parliamentary experience, will voluntarily quit and even more will be brutally kicked out. And I feel sorry for them. Really. It’s tough to start again. Ten years ago, my annual salary was £8,000, less than my teenage daughter brought in from her nannying job.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
grantfeller.substack.com | Grant Feller
This is a story about how to reinvent yourself in middle age, the best time to do so. It’s daunting and scary but you have the requisite skills and emotional intelligence plus, with work perpetually disrupted by technology, it’s increasingly necessary. Exactly 10 years ago I started out on my own in business, without any real clue what I was going to do, where I was headed or how I’d get there. Oh, and I didn’t have a single client or any income.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
research-live.com | Katie McQuater |Scott McDonald |Scott Mcdonald |Grant Feller
The NIQ Bases Cultural Resonance module, developed in collaboration with McDonald’s, will be added to Bases to help guide creative work discussions among marketers to help make more impactful advertising. The module will assess the role of cultural factors in advertisements and how those factors impact comprehension and relatability to the content.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
research-live.com | Grant Feller
Learn a new skill or face obsolescence is Ryan Roslansky’s dire warning. According to the company of which he’s chief executive, LinkedIn, there are more than 120,000 research and insight companies employing around six million people across the world. That data might be open to debate but Roslansky’s observation about the workplace impact of artificial intelligence is spot-on: ‘Jobs are changing on you, even if you’re not changing jobs.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
independent.co.uk | Eleanor Mills |Grant Feller
It’s a strange thing to find yourself lonely in mid-life. It creeps up slowly as the kids leave home, or friends move away. Lives that were once thronged with people, bursting with activities, days that felt like an endless to-do list that never got completed, give way to a phone that doesn’t ring or ping. In place of the busy-ness come echoing evenings, endless weekends. A friend who lives on her own and whose children are at university came to visit the other day.
