Monthly Archives: January 2017

Commuters suffer as TfL tube strikes impact on London business

Today’s (Monday 9th January) tube strike massively impacts businesses in the capital and many offices operate with skeleton staff as employees can’t get to their workplace. Members of the RMT and Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) unions took industrial action in protest at plans to close ticket offices on the London Underground. A total of 114
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How will digital disruption impact the tech landscape in 2017?

Digital disruption has been the defining feature of the past decade – and it’s clear that this will only continue. Three quarters of business leaders believe that their sector will fundamentally change by 2021. Digital disruption is not a negative force, but it is an unstoppable one, and for businesses to succeed in 2017 and
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How to beat the gig economy and become a direct selling entrepreneur

Has all the hype about the so-called ‘gig economy’ got you down? Indeed, what does this oft-repeated term really mean, or, more importantly, what does it mean for you? With workers’ rights being eroded in the ever-changing employment landscape, could becoming a direct selling entrepreneur be the best way to beat the gig economy? The
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UK SMEs targeted 230,000 times each by cyber criminals in 2016

UK businesses were, on average, subjected to almost 230,000 cyber attacks each during 2016, according to new analysis from Beaming. The volume of attacks hitting individual company firewalls passed the 1,000 per day mark, on average, for the first time in November last year. Hackers focusing on connected devices and the Internet of Things While
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Business insurance: Everything you need to know

Owning a business can be stressful and full of uncertainty at times but to ease this worry you can insure your business wisely and that way, if something does go wrong, you’ll be covered! There are around five different types of insurance that you might need to protect your company. General liability insurance “I’ve had an
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UK SMEs report lack of confidence about 2017 prospects

Almost three in every five (57 per cent) SME business owners say that they do not feel confident about the UK’s economic prospects for 2017, according to the Close Brothers Business Barometer. The quarterly survey questions over 900 UK SME owners and senior management across a range of sectors and regions. Firms at the smaller end
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Skills gap wider in London than the rest of the country

More than two-fifths of small business owners in the UK (43 per cent) experience challenges in recruiting the right staff needed for their business in a skills gap, according to the latest Aldermore SME Future Attitudes report, a survey conducted amongst 1,000 SMEs across the UK. The challenges faced by businesses when recruiting staff are most
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UK business optimism for the future highest in 15 months

UK business optimism is rising fast on the back of an upbeat outlook for the UK economy, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP. BDO’s Optimism Index, which indicates how firms expect their order books to develop in the coming six months, increased from 98.0 to 102.2 in December,
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Sustainable solutions for SMEs

Organically-grown onions have a lot to answer for. There is a residual belief in the UK that an environmental conscience is expensive. The truth is that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not just a reporting requirement or public relations luxury for large companies with deep pockets but an activity that is accessible to small businesses,
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