Recruiting the best talent to your company is not an easy task. It can be even more challenging when you lead a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) and don’t have the same resources larger organisations have at their disposal when hiring candidates. Being a smaller fish in the pond, however, isn’t always a bad thing
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Tech for start-ups: three IT essentials to help your new business
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Start-ups are appearing everywhere. Since the global recession, millions of people in the UK have decided that they would prefer to work for themselves rather than work for someone else. Despite improvements in the global and national economy, this trend shows no signs of slowing down. In 2015, 608,100 new businesses were incorporated, up 4.6 per
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Five ways to support staff training and learning at work
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For businesses to stay flexible and innovative, it’s important to encourage learning at work. To do that, you must create an environment which puts training, professional and personal development at the heart of your people strategy. This goes beyond improved productivity and profit. A strong learning culture can help you to fill skill gaps and
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Workers are only productive for up to two hours a day
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A quarter of workers are only productive for up to two hours a day, according to new research from Fellowes. This adds up to 40 million hours of lost productivity in the UK each week. The problem is getting worse over time. Compared to data from 2017, the average office worker has lost an extra
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Why your workforce isn’t working: You don’t know your staff well enough
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
We’re in the midst of a global productivity crisis. The IMF estimates that if productivity growth had followed its pre-2008 financial crisis trend, overall GDP in advanced economies would be about 5 per cent higher than today. However, to blame everything on the financial crisis is misleading. The overall trend in productivity growth is stagnant
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Why SMEs fear hiring new staff in 2017
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Small and medium-sized enterprises are reluctant to take on new staff during 2017, new research from Close Brothers warns, amid nervousness about the prospects for the economy and the uncertainties of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. More than half (51.2 per cent) of the SMEs surveyed in the latest quarterly Close Brothers Business Barometer
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