{"id":979,"date":"2021-03-27T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/people-are-optimistic-businesses-look-forward-after-12-months-of-covid\/"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T15:34:09","slug":"people-are-optimistic-businesses-look-forward-after-12-months-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/people-are-optimistic-businesses-look-forward-after-12-months-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People are optimistic&#8217;: Businesses look forward after 12 months of Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/business-bosses-coronavirus-effect-staff-outlook\">we spoke to four bosses<\/a> about how their businesses were faring. A year on, we ask them to about an extraordinary 12 months and what the future might hold<\/p>\n<p>Early in the pandemic Philip Jansen gave investors a financial fright by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/may\/07\/bt-suspends-dividend-to-free-up-5g-broadband-investment-coronavirus\" title=\"\">scrapping BT\u2019s multibillion-pound dividend<\/a>. Now, nearly a year on, he is handing out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/mar\/24\/bt-to-give-1500-covid-bonus-to-almost-60000-frontline-staff\" title=\"\">Covid bonuses <\/a>to tens of thousands of frontline staff before a vote on a potential national strike.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/mar\/27\/businesses-optimistic-customers-return-year-since-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fa89cc1337befd2ea125172e9f6898785265c8fc\/0_170_2732_1638\/master\/2732.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=83bf482244bd5184426dbf1df65b5000\" title=\"\u2018People are optimistic': Businesses look forward after 12 months of Covid\" \/>Early in the pandemic, we spoke to four bosses about how their businesses were faring. A year on, we ask them to about an extraordinary 12 months and what the future might hold<br \/>\nEarly in the pandemic Philip Jansen gave investors a financial fright by scrapping BT\u2019s multibillion-pound dividend. Now, nearly a year on, he is handing out Covid bonuses to tens of thousands of frontline staff before a vote on a potential national strike. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the pandemic, we spoke to four bosses about how their businesses were faring. A year on, we ask them to about an extraordinary 12 months and what the future might hold Early in the pandemic Philip Jansen gave investors a financial fright by scrapping BT\u2019s multibillion-pound dividend. Now, nearly a year on, he &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/people-are-optimistic-businesses-look-forward-after-12-months-of-covid\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018People are optimistic&#8217;: Businesses look forward after 12 months of Covid<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}