Bernard Audemard

An NHS locum arrives in a new town on a Sunday evening. They have a 7am shift at the hospital on Monday. They need somewhere to sleep, somewhere to cook, somewhere to do the paperwork that follows a clinical day,…

Most accommodation decisions are made in a hurry. A project extends. A handover slips. A client changes their mind. A replacement engineer needs to stay an extra ten days because the site is behind schedule. The person booking the accommodation…

ESG reporting has moved from a board slide to a board-level metric. In 2026, investors, customers, and increasingly regulators are asking UK companies to demonstrate credible progress on environmental, social, and governance outcomes. The travel programme is one of the…

A long assignment, three months or more, looks attractive on paper: a new city, a stretch role, a step up. In practice, it can quietly break the people who take it. Not visibly. Not in the first month. But by…

If you send an employee on an assignment, you have a duty of care to them under UK law and under your own internal policies. That duty does not stop because the employee is staying in a hotel rather than…

If you are a UK procurement manager booking accommodation for an assignment, the question that matters is not “what is the nightly rate?” It is “what does the total cost of the stay look like once every item is added…

The ‘Second-Home’ Effect: How Serviced Accommodation Improves Productivity on UK Assignments Most productivity advice for travelling employees misses the obvious. People do not struggle on long assignments because the work is hard. They struggle because the place they are sleeping…

The Next Evolution of Corporate Housing: Where Serviced Accommodation Is Heading Most predictions about the future of corporate housing tend to drift into one of two tired directions. Either the technology will save us, or the technology will replace us.…

Most corporate housing providers chase new accounts by offering a lower rate. Then they chase the next one. Then the next. Discounts become the only lever they pull when a client threatens to leave, and the moment a competitor undercuts…