Monthly Archives: October 2017

Why This Nurse Made the Switch to Medical Coding and Billing

A few weeks ago, Tricia Mitchell left a comment on one of The Work at Home Woman’s Facebook posts about how she quit her nursing job and is now working from home as a medical coder and biller. Because I too am a retired nurse, I was curious as to why she made the career […]

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How one small business went from start-up to partnering with Tesco

Spoon Guru is a London-based technology company that is helping consumers to find food products and recipes, based on their individual dietary requirements, from allergy-specific to lifestyle diets. Developed by British entrepreneurs Markus Stripf, Tim Allen and Simon Oregan, and a team of technologists and nutritionists, the Spoon Guru platform uses a combination of AI,
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What exactly is an intern? HMRC might take a different view!

Taking on staff represents a considerable expense and risk for businesses. For fledgling businesses, the cost alone can be prohibitive and that’s where interns come in. Interns do not have the same rights as employees or workers and importantly, are not entitled to the national minimum wage. However, there is considerable scope for confusion when
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How we are preparing our pet food business for Brexit

As the EU repeal bill won its first Commons vote on September 12, the process of Brexit is now underway and the preparations done by UK businesses must be too. However, since no country has ever left the EU before, predicting what this will mean for UK businesses hasn’t been easy for anyone. This might
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How businesses can access government assistance

You can’t do it on your own. All businesses, large and small, will need assistance at some point, in many different ways. When you’re a small business looking to make that step change and expand, there is help out there. That said, nobody will come knocking on your door to tell you. It’s your responsibility
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Living with Google: What you can and can’t get removed from search

Googling is ingrained into our daily lives, making the platform the first place people go to search for information about your business. Search results are what Google loads on screen when someone looks for your business. Their perception of what they see in search results (your online reputation) then influences their next move. It’s your
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Five top tips when being interviewed ‘down the line’

TV news increasingly favours the ‘down the line’ interview because there are so many advantages for the media outlet. A ‘down the line’ interview is conducted remotely where the interviewee cannot see the interviewer but can hear the questions being asked through an earpiece (hence down the line). ‘Down the line’ interviews can be live
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The plague of ‘work about work’ hits UK businesses hard

Unproductive working practices in UK companies are a normal state of affairs, with 42 per cent of employees admitting to spending most of their day on futile ‘work about work’ (status meetings, organising work, and tracking down information), as opposed to doing their actual work and moving projects forward, a new study reveals. As well
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