Monthly Archives: August 2017

Financial reporting – Here’s what you should be doing

When you own your own business and you work there day-in, day-out, you instinctively know what’s working and what isn’t. But how do you quantify these successes to external parties like investors or new partners? And what do you do when your business grows, or changes, and your existing measuring stick doesn’t work in the
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UK professionals believe job hopping is becoming more acceptable

As freelance and flexible working become increasingly popular, new data from CV-Library finds three quarters (74.3 per cent) of the nation’s workers believe that job hopping has become more acceptable over the years, with this figure increasing to 87 per cent amongst under 18s. The survey of 1,200 professionals, sought to explore whether or not it’s acceptable
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Technology not improving workplace productivity, study finds

Almost 70 per cent of workers do not feel that new technology has increased their productivity, a new study from Henley Business School finds. Among those, all respondents who were at middle management level or above were of the view that tech had not increased their productivity, while 34 per cent felt that new tech had in
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Nearly one million UK SMEs suffer cyber security breach in the last 12 months

Results from the latest Zurich SME Risk Index reveal almost one in six (16 per cent) SMEs have fallen victim to a cyber-attack in the last 12 months, equating to more than 875,000 nationwide. Businesses in London are the worst affected, with almost a quarter (23 per cent) reporting they have suffered a breach within this period.
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