Inbrief

Only three per cent of UK employees think businesses are ‘fully open and honest’ about their efforts to work in a sustainable manner and a third think companies exaggerate their actions to win over consumers, according to a BT survey. Tim Smart, chief executive of BT Global Services UK, said the YouGov poll of 618 adults working in businesses with more than 500 employees ‘suggests businesses have a lot of work to do to convince customers how seriously they take sustainability’.