Few businesses would deny that Covid hasn't caused strains. It's not surprising that businesses are dealing with that by stepping up the pace of board changes and bringing forward successions plans.
The number of director changes at UK public businesses has jumped since the coronavirus outbreak in a sign that the pandemic is driving an overhaul of British boardrooms. There were 232 board-level moves in April, 13 per cent higher than the monthly average of 206 over the past two years, according to New Street Group, an executive search company.
