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Stress in the Workplace

Stress in the Workplace

Stress Awareness Week is designed to raise awareness of stress and its impact in both personal and working lives. It also aims to reduce stigma while promoting the importance of well-being and stress reduction. Stress affects millions of people...

Top Tips: Pensions Auto Enrolment

Top Tips: Pensions Auto Enrolment

It’s now been nearly six years since changes to the Pensions Act has required all companies, under Auto Enrolment, to provide workers with a Workplace Pension Scheme. Pensions Auto Enrolment represented a fundamental change in the way pensions are...

Top Tips: Managing your People

Top Tips: Managing your People

Here are a few of our favourite pointers for good people management: Maintain Good Communication Employees want to be kept in the loop about ongoing projects, goals, and deadlines, so it’s essential that you communicate well with them and inform...

Top Tips: Managing Change

Top Tips: Managing Change

Change…….to make or become different, to take or use another instead of, to give up or get rid of (something) in exchange for something else; an act or process through which something becomes different. Change means many different things in...

Top Tips: Setting up a Payroll

Top Tips: Setting up a Payroll

So you have taken the plunge and set up your own business and started employing people (see our other ‘top tips’ articles on how best to do this), now you will need to have the capability to pay them appropriately and meet your Pensions Automatic Enrolment...

Great North Run 2018

Director running in aid of St Barnabas Hospice Trust (Lincolnshire) It’s that time of year again when Adam Davey is donning his trainers on 9th September to run in the world’s largest half marathon, the Great North Run, for the 14th time. Having raised over £10,000...

Top Tips: Recruitment

Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your business and time-consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand: Pays you back in employee productivity, a successful employment relationship, and a...

Top Tips: Employment Contracts and Policies

Time flies from those early days when you set-up your business and take-on your first employee; but have you paused to think about whether you have appropriate governance and compliance in place around the employment issues facing you now and in the future?  If the...

Get Ready for the World Cup

The World Cup kicks off in just a few days and as always, excitement is mounting around the trying to predict the likely winner, who’ll get the golden boot, what will be the outcome of the inevitable penalty shoot-out, etc. At work it can be great fun and create good...

Tax-free childcare roll out 

Tax-free childcare roll out The implementation of Tax-Free Childcare, the new government scheme to help working parents with the cost of childcare, is being rolled out to eligible parents in stages. The scheme first made its debut in April 2017 and although there have...