ID&E | Cultural diversity in the workplace
Cultural diversity in the workplace I hadn’t fully realised the importance of diversity in an organisation, until I saw the lack of it. I was at a client workshop about 6 years ago. This workshop had 24 senior representatives who oversaw various departments of the client’s organisation. Normally in these workshops, you have people challenge […]
Getting to know | Darcey Jones
Getting to Know Darcey Jones For the fourth in our “Getting to Know” series we spoke with one of our Senior Consultants Darcey Jones, who speaks to us about her previous roles and her trips abroad, teaches us the art of patience and persistence and leaves us with some food for thought when sharing the […]
Insights | The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest As Wilde’s Algernon says “The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either…”. Wise words indeed, and never more so than now – welcome to the definitely impure, heinously complex, and anything but dull world of Cyber Security… For someone accountable […]
Mental health at work…when your home may be blown up
Mental health at work…when your home may be blown up The biggest tragedy in my life has been losing my Mum at the age of 24. That was until the early morning of 24th of February 2022 when explosions started appearing around Ukraine, my only home until the age of 13. Since 2006, I’ve been […]
Man Up
Man Up [DISCLAIMER: Some of the content in this article may be distressing to the reader] Let’s just get this out of the way first and foremost: I am writing this article because just over a year ago today I was suffering with severe depression, to the point of what is known as ‘suicidal ideation’. […]
Being OK vs not being OK and knowing when to act
Being OK vs not being OK and knowing when to act My name is Howard Lewis, I am a Managing Consultant for Finyx, based in London. I have an interest in mental health management, especially in the workplace. I am also studying for a diploma in integrative counselling. My awareness stems from a time when […]
ID&E | International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day | Our Proudest Career Achievements At Finyx, we have lots of amazing women as part of our business. As Women’s History month comes to an end, we reflected on the proudest moments of our careers. The answers show both the incredible range of skills and experiences that we have, and we also […]
ID&E | Women and the future tech landscape
Women and the future tech landscape The reality of the technology field today is that it’s still largely a male dominated space. Tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Apple who run at an estimated ~24-28% female workforce have received a fair amount of criticism for not doing enough to improve these numbers. The recent pandemic […]
Insights | Returning to work and how to overcome those jitters
Returning to work and how to overcome those jitters Gone are the days when only women would take lengthy breaks from work after having a baby. Today, over 900,00 people are eligible for shared parental leave (despite only 2% of those in the UK actually taking advantage of it*) and increasing numbers are either taking […]
Insights | FinOps
FinOps In the days of data centres with fixed costs and annual budget cycles it was relatively pain free to make a plan. Each year would be the same, the nice “bean counters” in Finance would explain to the quirky “tech heads” what the budget constraints may be based on market forces, budget cuts and […]