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New research has revealed that 60 per cent of employees will watch sport at work during the office hours this summer. While nine out of ten businesses will be permitting staff to do so, only 39 per cent are introducing policies to cope with the added network strain.
Jane Crosby, employment lawyer at law firm Hart Brown gives her top ten tips to avoid the pitfalls for start up businesses when employing staff.
A Peter Jones Enterprise Academy student from Amersham & Wycombe College in High Wycombe has been named National Entrepreneur of the Year by Dragons’ Den’s Peter Jones and presented with a cheque of £5,000 to invest in their business.
A small psychological business experiment has revealed that a consumer is almost six times more likely to call a landline number rather than a mobile number for the same service.
If you’re an employer in the UK, then automatic enrolment will affect you and there are things you’ll need to do. It’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with Auto Enrolment now to understand the impact on your business and how you can prepare for it.
We live a world of micromanagement and hyper-connectivity–posting 140-character status updates on Twitter, using online apps to track every business expense during the day, processing hundreds of emails–it’s easy to get overwhelmed by granularity.
The Heartbleed, GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker viruses have hit the headlines recently and highlighted the increasing threat that cyber fraud poses for the modern-day small business owner.
Alongside identifying, researching and working on overseas business opportunities, UK exporters also require specialist financial guidance.
Working for yourself is the dream, but too often it leads to disappointment. Discover why–and learn how to make entrepreneurship work for you.
Christopher Aedo, Chief Product Architect at Mirantis, gives a step by step guide to evaluating your cloud requirements and matching your needs with the right platform.
If you’re thinking about growing your business, you may have considered whether you can provide goods and services to new customers based overseas.
Whether you had your own office, an area segregated from the rest of the team, or a desk alongside your colleagues, where you sat used to be the barometer of the hierarchy of an office.
These days the term brand is loosely thrown around, and on the surface you wouldn’t be foolish to assume its purpose is to simply sell or by thinking it is synonymous with a company’s logo.
There is a TV trailer for this week’s Uncover Boss which shows is a girl proclaiming ‘You are picking on me!’ as she tearfully leaves the office. Her boss is left rubbing his head in confusion and exasperation. If you fear this may happen to you here are some tips to avoid such an emotional outcome.
The research for Graham Jones’ latest book, Top Performance Leadership, asked UK employees about their leaders’ ability to take advantage of economic growth.
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