// Insights

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// Feature Logistics & Supply Chain

The leadership gap that's quietly holding back UK logistics

The sector has spent a decade fixing trucks, sheds and systems. The thing it has not fixed is where the next site leaders come from.

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30 OCT 2026 · 5 MIN READ

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// The library

Latest reads.

29 Oct 2026 Hiring

What a bad hire really costs: the salary is the smallest number

The salary is the smallest number. The real bill lands on the team, the P&L and your name in the market.

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28 Oct 2026 Logistics & Supply Chain

Labour shortages post Brexit: the long tail nobody planned for

Five years on from the end of free movement, the labour pool logistics was built on has not come back. The winners stopped waiting for it.

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27 Oct 2026 Logistics & Supply Chain

The growth of automation within logistics: affordability and the ROI on the initial outlay

Automation has stopped being a megashed luxury. The maths now works further down the market, if you count the people costs properly.

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26 Oct 2026 Hiring

The rise of FTCs and interim hiring across the UK

More businesses are buying capability by the month rather than the career. Here is what is driving it, and how to do it well.

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23 Oct 2026 Hiring

Day-one workers' rights: what the change means for hiring decisions in logistics

The two-year safety net is going. That changes how you hire, not just how you dismiss.

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