In his latest article, John Ritchie, Chief Executive of digital group life and sick pay insurer Ellipse, discusses how SMEs should prepare themselves to support employees experiencing mental illness.
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Will 2016 be your year for a Business Awards? What’s the value to business?
Looking ahead for the New Year, businesses will be evaluating their strategies, looking back at efficiency and ultimately, to what can be done better in the future.
Turkey or tax? 4 reasons to start your Self Assessment over the Christmas holidays
The festive period is a great time to take a break and recharge your batteries. You may be looking forward to some well-deserved downtime but if you’re keen to take advantage of a quiet period in your business and catch up on some admin, this could also be a great opportunity to roll up your sleeves and get started on your 2014/15 Self Assessment.
SME insight on a shoestring
Jane Frost CBE, CEO of the Market Research Society (MRS), explores how SMEs can carry out market research on a budget
Top Five Tips for Business Start Ups
Last night we all watched in anticipation as Joseph and Vana battled it out to become Lord Sugar’s new business partner. Though polar opposite in business concepts, for me Joseph was a clear winner from the start and I can’t wait to watch ImpraGas develop and grow over the next 12 months.
10 ways to tell your customer experience & engagement strategy is behind the times
2016 is fast approaching and this time of year presents us with a chance to reflect. How did your marketing and customer engagement efforts pan out this year? Are you keeping up with the changing customer landscape, or are you stuck in the past, doing things the way you always have?
Top tips for a better connected office in 2016
Can you remember a time before wireless network connectivity? When meetings were done face-to-face in imposing boardrooms, ballpoints were akin to iPads, and you had to physically connect your computer to the keyboard, mouse and printer using that time-forgotten component — the cable.
7 ways to recharge on the move
Let’s face it, as much as we might like to plan our work and space it out, there are some weeks where everyone seems to want a piece of you, all the deadlines converge, and you find yourself charging from one appointment to another, replying to emails and picking up voicemails in between, hitting the road in the early hours of the morning and hitting the sack late at night, possibly in a different location each night.
Employers urged to act to meet 21 December deadline for advising HMRC about payrolling benefits in kind
Employers considering payrolling benefits need to tell HMRC by 21 December if they intend to make the switch in April 2016, to minimise the problems on switching from the existing system to the new process.
Would Santa be sleigh-ed by tax?
Christmas is getting closer which means that Santa Claus will soon be coming to town. But will the man in red need to worry about any tax issues this year while he’s harnessing Rudolph and shaking his belly like a bowlful of jelly?
Three Ways Maintaining Employee Engagement is Like Maintaining Your Car
In the world of business we hear a lot of sayings, one of which is the customer is always right and the second is that your business should run like a well-oiled machine.
Locking in value from selling a business: the earn out
The “earn out” is likely to comprise a very significant part of the overall consideration received on the sale of a business: possibly as much as 50% or more of the consideration may ultimately be attributable to it. An understanding of the role of the earn out, how it is structured and how it is taxed is therefore essential in any negotiation of the deal.
How to motivate staff around Christmas time
The Christmas and New Year period is a time of reflection for several staff members. They have a bit more time off than usual and will usually spend time with family so they are bound to consider their priorities and assess their opportunities.
3 ways successful people achieve their new year’s goals
The results of Richard Wiseman’s experiment are widely known; 88% of those who set New Year’s resolutions fail to achieve them.
Mobile Apps for a Healthy Work Life Balance in 2016
Achieving the perfect balance between work and play is something we all strive for, but few manage to attain anything like an ideal equilibrium between the two. Amid the stress of work, household chores and raising children, there’s often little time left to pursue the things we want to do — be it going to the cinema, eating out or even travelling the world.
