Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
The latest guides on employing and managing full or part time staff effectively as a small business owner or sole trader, brought to you in partnership with Sage. Contains advice on employment law, health and safety at work, recruitment, training, redundancy and disciplinary information, employee rights, workplace regulations, and much more.
This section provides expert and in-depth advice articles on all aspects of staff management and human resources legislation. Our aim is to help UK small businesses to hire great employees, manage them effectively and look after them properly.
Other key topics covered in this employing staff section include team management, employee motivation, legal rights and responsibilities, managing absence, maternity pay and leave, taking on new staff, induction programmes, communication, workplace policies, flexible working, job descriptions, employment contracts and related information.
We also provide information on HR tools, templates and resources specially targeted at SMEs as well as suitable training courses and workshops that can help you get the best out of your staff to make a more efficient, more profitable, happy and productive company.
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With Brexit looming and current political uncertainty, business confidence is not doing particularly well. But as a growing business, how do you keep your team positive, productive and engaged? Mark Woolley, commercial director at Reckon, gives his top five tips.
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
In this piece Ab Banjeree, CEO of ViewsHub, shares some practical lessons for small businesses following Travis Kalanick's controversial reign at the helm of Uber.
Employing & managing staff
Now that businesses are taking notice and supporting staff members with mental health issues, should you take off sick leave for your health?
Employing & managing staff
In this piece Neil Pickering, customer and industry insight manager at Kronos, gives five tips to keep employees engaged during Wimbledon.
Employing & managing staff
In this piece Alan Price, Peninsula’s employment law and HR director, discusses what the Taylor Review could mean for company owners.
Employing & managing staff
With a recent focus on zero-hour contracts in the media, we look at how you can maintain the wellbeing of your younger staff.
Employing & managing staff
With the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, HR departments can be inspired to find new ways to hire future talent.
Employing & managing staff
Kate Palmer, head of advisory at Peninsula, discusses how to create a culture where employees feel that they can make complaints about sexual harassment.
Employing & managing staff
With the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, HR departments can be inspired to find new ways to hire future talent.
Employing & managing staff
Kate Palmer, head of advisory at Peninsula, discusses how to create a culture where employees feel that they can make complaints about sexual harassment.
Employing & managing staff
CAB Studios have commissioned the white paper ‘Power to the Customer’, revealing how brands must evolve in the customer age and what the industry needs to do to keep pace.
Employing & managing staff
With an average of four smoking breaks per a working day, more than 60 per cent of office workers believe they are ‘unfair’.
Employing & managing staff
New research reveals the impact of employee ill health on business, with many businesses losing up to one month a year in lost productivity.
Employing & managing staff
Here, Richard Stewart, founder of Untangl.co.uk, explores how small businesses are beginning to innovate when it comes to employee perks.
Business Technology
Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Business Technology
With the landline shutdown coming fast, there’s never been a better time to switch to VoIP. Don’t let your small business be left behind!
Export & Import
Many factors can affect products’ journeys from A to B. Here are some tips for best practice for successful shipping in the modern world