Monthly Archives: December 2016

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Talking politics in the workplace can negatively affect employees

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2016 has been a year of electoral surprises, with the UK voting to leave the E.U. and the U.S. sending Donald Trump to the White House. These results have made discussing politics in the workplace near inescapable. Talking politics with colleagues can lead to all sorts of problems, particularly when there is a disagreement in
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SMEs don’t understand personal guarantee in business loans

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SMEs are signing up to livelihood threatening loan conditions, ignorantly, a report exposes today. The research by Wirefund, an SME loan provider, reveals that the majority of SME owners have no idea what a personal guarantee is, despite it being a requirement from banks and many alternative finance providers when lending to businesses. Wirefund asked
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Employees lose two working days a year to late meetings

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Employees are losing approximately 19 hours each and every year due to late meetings, according to Barco‘s research conducted across organisations in the UK, US, France and Germany on meeting stress. Of the 1,000 office workers surveyed, 59 per cent attend meetings a few times a week, with meetings beginning, on average, six minutes late. If
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What can we learn from the small business community?

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With 2016 beginning to wind to a close, small business owners up and down the country – and across all industries – will be reviewing their year. The last 12 months will have been full, in varying degrees, of growth, setbacks, success and surprises. Consequently, many of those business owners will be trying to predict
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