Like many of our clients, after a reasonably positive start to 2020, everything has come crashing in around us somewhat. It has been a ridiculously difficult and often stressful time for all businesses as we try to understand furloughing staff and applications for loans as well as rent and VAT holidays. Ultimately, we all know
Lethaby & Cook’s civil and structural recruitment division saw a spike in civil engineering work running up to the nations temporary state of lockdown. The current pause in activities and inevitable adjustment aside a significant number of clients are optimistic they will resume much planned recruitment. We have been placing engineers on HS2 and London’s
Lethaby & Cook were delighted to be asked by our client to supply them with with site management and gold card electricians at their project near City Airport in London. The project involves the fit-out of 84 rooms, as well as reception and landlord areas within the building. We have had a presence on site
After what seemed a very long Christmas break, Lethaby & Cook are looking forward to another challenging year in the industry. With brexit solved (allegedly) we will be hoping for a bounce in the economy after uncertainty took a grip in 2019. There was still work out there in 2019 but economic uncertainty did play
It has been a reasonable summer for Lethaby & Cook, but, due to economic uncertainty, not as busy as we might have hoped. The current political impasse (with the you know what) has definitely had an impact on our business, with the release of funds at the top of the money chain particularly slow. A
Lethaby and Cook are, after a hectic December, up and raring to go into 2019 and face the challenges ahead, with pivotal decisions at government level to be decided (we hope) by the end of March. There is little doubt that political and economic uncertainty has affected some contracts commencing and therefore halted some aspects
Well that was a very busy and long hot summer for Lethaby & Cook, featuring plenty of work and long and often hard battles for good calibre candidates. On the M&E side of the business Bob Lethaby has been at full stretch on occasions, trying to find the happy medium between satisfying client demand whilst
Lethaby & Cook have had a good start to 2018 with our respective industries still relatively buoyant despite continued economic uncertainty. Mechanical & Electrical On the M&E contracting side of the business we have picked up two new clients who are feeding us work in the care home and commercial office sector but admittedly, this
With the hangovers disappearing and the excess food digested, it is time to look forward to another year at Lethaby & Cook as we continue to build on the business we completed in 2017. We are looking to achieve this by reinvesting profits back into gaining more of an online presence with regards to advertising,
Despite all the political upheaval courtesy of Brexit, hung parliaments and even talk of a ‘New Party’ in politics, the construction industry remained buoyant in the summer, despite definite signs that the commercial market is slowing down, at least with some of my clients. The biggest issue I have witnessed has been the increase in
