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Going into business with your best friend: Why it works

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I first met my best friend Marco Robinson was I was 18 years old and had just moved to Tenerife to start a new job. Our friendship blossomed and many years later we started working together in order to launch a vacation club start-up in Asia. The launch was a huge success and we eventually
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Businesses put consumers at risk of cybercrime

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  Almost three quarters of British businesses are aware that their actions put their clients at risk of being a victim of cybercrime. However, they continue to readily send private and confidential information insecurely anyway, according to research by StayPrivate. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are just as much to blame for
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127 million hours of work absence taken last year due to mental health problems

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The report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows that the number of days taken off work with mental health problems has increased 25 per cent year on year (2014 to 2015). The data, which studies sickness absence in the UK from 2013 to 2015 inclusively, also finds that musculoskeletal, neck and back pain are top factors
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