Thoughts & Ideas

What do employees value? Understanding what your employees value and how to change your company to accommodate their needs is the key to improving the productivity of your business, many business [...]

Contractors and tax-free childcare You can pay child care costs through your limited company if this is the structure you’ve chosen for your consulting work. By doing it this way, you may also [...]

Dissolving your business There are many reasons that companies are dissolved from insolvency to shareholders deciding they’ve had enough and they want to take the available cash and assets within [...]

Interns Summer is on the way and there are tens of thousands of students who are looking to gain some valuable experience in the workplace. If your business operates in an in-demand industry, is [...]

Are you GDPR Ready?   We’ve known about GDPR for a while now but like most people we thought we would leave it for a rainy day.  We felt a bit overwhelmed as we hold a lot of business [...]

Working time regulations   Employees have many rights. They are entitled to the right to not be unfairly dismissed and to earn the National Minimum Wage. They are also entitled to work no [...]

Statutory Maternity Pay Maternity leave often causes some operational difficulties for a business particularly if the employee in question is a manager or a great sales person. This article will [...]

GDPR In just a few weeks’ time, GDPR will be here. You’ve probably heard a lot about it. You’ve probably been confused (just like everyone else) by the contradicting guidances issued by various [...]

How to make your business more competitive If your customers aren’t spending as much as they used to spend and your rivals somehow always seem to have the upper hand over you in one or more area, [...]

Short- and long-term business strategies Business is dynamic and every day is different. Despite the fact that everything changes around you all the time, you need a direction of travel for your [...]