UK businesses are dealing with an increase in employee turnover as more than a third (36 per cent) of HR directors have seen the number of leavers rise over the past three years, according to new research by Robert Half UK. While businesses recognise the issue and are starting to offer more incentives for staff to
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Smaller businesses still face failure due to cashflow barriers
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Smaller businesses are continuing to face barriers to funding across the UK, with 73 per cent of them finding the application process to be overly ‘long and painful’, according to figures from small business lender Ashley Finance. Despite figures showing that cashflow is responsible for up to 90 per cent of small business failure, smaller UK SMEs
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Bosses left confused by what do about religion at work
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A new ComRes report about workplace diversity and inclusion suggests that British employers struggle to manage expressions of religion and belief in the workplace, and up to a million people in Britain may have experienced workplace harassment, discrimination or bullying because of their religion or belief. The Belief at Work study into faith in the
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A third of SMEs don’t know about the government’s industrial strategy
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The Aldermore SME Future Attitudes report reveals an astonishing lack of awareness around the government’s much-vaunted Industrial Strategy, fewer than three in ten (29 per cent) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) claim to have heard about it. The report, which surveyed over a thousand senior SME decision makers in across the UK, reveals that of those
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Businesses still need to do more to tackle gender pay gap
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Young Women’s Trust, a charity for women aged 16-30 on low or no pay, is calling for more action to reduce the gender pay gap, as new reporting requirements come into effect in April. The charity fears that pay transparency, intended to encourage employers to reduce the gender pay gap, will be ineffective without enforcement
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Tech industry named least sexist sector in the UK job market
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A surprising number of job ads still use gender-biased language in the quest for perfect candidates, but some industries are bucking the trend. The technology industry was amongst the least biased or sexist of all UK sectors, finds new research by job search engine Adzuna. The finance and travel sectors also proved themselves more immune
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Small businesses still losing data despite warnings to backup
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Most businesses and consumers now routinely make complete and comprehensive backups of their data), according to the latest customer survey by Kroll Ontrack. The survey results highlight growing popularity of cloud-based backups as around twice as many users (about 33 per cent) as last year report they make backups online. However, despite growing use of digital
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SMEs still held back by funding despite record asset based finance sales
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Record sales of asset based finance to small and medium enterprises are to be welcomed, but too few SMEs are aware of how such funding could accelerate their growth, the merchant and corporate bank Close Brothers is warning. Close Brothers said that while many SMEs are increasingly confident about their prospects for the year ahead,
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Workers reveal inequality in opportunity to rise up the ranks
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New research by Lee Hecht Harrison |Penna, the global people management business finds a fifth of UK employees (20 per cent) feel discriminated against in promotion decisions. The most common cause of this inequality is age (39 per cent) followed by gender (26 per cent) and employment status (22 per cent). While employers agree ageism is the most apparent at
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Bereavement benefit changes spark a priority change for insurers and employers
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Government support for the bereaved is changing from 6 April 2017: a new Bereavement Support Payment will be paid instead of the current suite of state bereavement benefits. Among the most significant amendments, changes will materially impact parents as they will only receive payments for 18 months, instead of until the child is no longer
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