As part of its commitment to helping businesses use technology to make work life easier and more efficient, Trainline has worked with Holly Brockwell, tech expert and founder of leading tech site Gadgette, to develop a guide and top ten list of the best apps to keep people ‘appy’ in their working life. Holly Brockwell
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Outsourcing your health and safety needs
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Health and safety is often portrayed in a negative light, bearing the brunt of pedantic jokes. However, when it goes wrong, the impact on businesses can be catastrophic and all good humour is quickly forgotten. For this reason alone, ensuring health and safety is at the top of a company’s agenda is imperative. Larger firms
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Asset based finance to businesses jumps to £22.2 billion in a year
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Asset based finance to businesses is up 13 per cent since last year, hitting an all-time high of £22.2 billion, rising from £20.6 billion the previous year, says the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA), the body representing the asset based finance industry in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The ABFA says that a key
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A third of female workers believe the gender pay gap is ‘out of their hands’
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New research from CV-Library finds that a staggering 87.9 per cent of women say they’ve been paid less because of their gender, more than a third (36.7 per cent) of female employees believing that the gender pay gap is ‘out of their hands’. The research, which surveyed 1,000 UK workers on their attitudes towards the gender pay gap in
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Employing company formation agents to ensure success
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There are many reasons to employ registered limited company formation agents irrespective of the fact that you own an existing business. This is especially true if you are looking to incorporate an adviser in order to act on behalf of your clients. Or maybe you just want to improve the way in which business is conducted.
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Huge opportunity for women in business, says santander
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Analysis of official data by Santander shows that a third (35 per cent) of all managerial roles in the UK were held by women in business in 2016, up from 32 per cent in 2011. Separate analysis of listed businesses in the UK shows just 32 female executive directors at FTSE 250 firms and 24 for the
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How online booking systems have improved to make our lives easier
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Taking into account that technology has advanced in terms of cyber security, booking something like a vacation or a hotel room online has gone a long way and companies which have hospitality as their focal point of business have enjoyed a large increase in sales just because of this perk. An online booking system will
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How will the apprenticeship levy benefit small businesses?
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Apprenticeships are evolving, and April will see fundamental changes to the way these programmes are funded and delivered. The introduction of the apprenticeship levy has stolen all the headlines, but this is a change that impacts on employers of all sizes. As well as changes to the funding – what an apprenticeship is has also
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Five reasons why small businesses need cyber vulnerability detection
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The frequency of cyber attacks is increasing rapidly — and it’s not just the big corporations that are being targeted. Of course, most of the stories that make the news are the ones involving household name companies — you only have to cast your mind back to January of this year to remember the Lloyds
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SME business risk falls 18 per cent in four years
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Results from the Zurich SME Risk Index over the past four years show that overall business risk for British small and medium-sized businesses fell by 18 per cent since October 2012. Business risk for small and medium businesses now sits at 36.72 points, compared to an all-time high 44.55 points in early 2013. The fall in
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