In January 2022, I wrote an article about the lessons of general application for employers which could be learnt from UK senior civil servant Sue Gray’s interim report on ‘partygate’ — the name given to the lockdown-breaking parties in and around Downing Street. I suggested that we would have to wait just a few more weeks before the full report was published. A few weeks inevitably turned into a few months, but now that we have finally had sight of the full report — and beyond the anger that many will feel at the findings — there remain plenty of take-aways for business leaders.
First is the importance of leading by example: “senior leadership … must bear responsibility for [the] culture”.
