When an employee hands in their notice the first thing you will think about is how you are going to manage without them and how you are going to find a replacement soon enough for your leaving employee to train them. Most small businesses will not have sufficient resources to have trained a "spare" and unless it is a role you don't need to replace you will probably have a very short handover period or even a gap between employees. …
If you are a business owner do you have the skills you need to process the payroll for your employees? It is not always as straightforward as you think and you will only find that out when you have an angry employee or two demanding explanations or HMRC contacting you. Is it worth the risk? …
Anybody who attended the Swindon Expo at the Steam Museum in June may have come across our stand with our new banner asking "Are you burying your head in the sand about Auto Enrolment?". Visitors were keen to play our "bury your head in the sand" game with the winner being offered a choice of prizes which included having their auto enrollment scheme set up for them. Most employers will know by now that setting up a pension scheme for your employees is a necessity. …
A good bookkeeper will give you peace of mind. As your business grows keeping a record of your financial transactions becomes more and more important but as it grows you will have less time to devote to this. For many business owners it is a difficult step to move from “doing it all” to paying someone else to do it. …
We are very proud of our Investors in People plaque. It has pride of place in our office reception so that it can be seen by our visitors and by us every time we walk through the hallway. It reminds us what a great team we are and how hard we all worked towards achieving it. …
