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In his latest article, John Ritchie, CEO of Ellipse, reflects on how an overhaul of the state’s sickness benefits could actually be a blessing for his business, ensuring processes and support are in place to ensure employees who are absent because of sickness or injury are quickly rehabilitated back to the workplace.
The deficit of trade in goods and services fell from £2.8 billion in September to £2.0 billion in October, according to a report released by the Office of National Statistics.
Starting your own business is hard work – seriously hard work – and can quite often feel like you’re on a rollercoaster. But if you believe in what you’re doing, it can also be the most rewarding job in the world.
The festive season is upon us, but while there should be peace and goodwill to all men, this can be a tough time of year for the sector of the market bringing businesses closer together – the B2B arena.
As more than half a million businesses were created in the UK last year and with the proportion of first-time directors rising by 13 % we look at what is needed to give your startup that cutting edge.
Are you married? Are you planning to have kids? When did you start your career? Where are you from originally? Do you celebrate any specific religious holidays? During a job interview, all these questions are illegal.
The office Christmas party is the chance to let your hair down, have fun with the colleagues you see every day and celebrate what a great year you’ve had, but there are a few tips you should follow to stop you doing anything foolish with your colleagues.
At some point in their careers, most leaders have either consciously — or, more likely, unwittingly — based (or justified) their approach to motivation on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
To cope with the Christmas trading period, Amazon is hiring an additional 13,000 staff and Royal Mail is bringing in 19,000 temporary recruits. Aldi has also announced it will create a further 35,000 jobs over the course of the next eight years, signalling a £600 million expansion across the UK which will double the number of its employees.
One of the most effective ways of learning is to mimic the best. When it comes to encouraging us to buy – Santa Claus must be up there among the very best!
The Christmas season is just around the corner, and it’s a great time to strengthen an important area of your business: the relationships you have with your customers.
Rafael Cortes, Communications Director for communication systems integrator, Foehn, explains how businesses can mitigate potential disasters with modern telephony.
More and more female entrepreneurs are identifying business opportunities in the global marketplace and taking advantage of them.
Exercising right after you wake up is a great idea. However, if that’s not your cup of tea, there are things that will wake up your brain that take a lot less exertion.
Despite the recent improvement in the forecast for the UK economy, reports of redundancies are still appearing in the headlines as companies continue to struggle and restructure to cope with the demands of a changing marketplace.
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