According the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) UK employers are spending less on training than other major economies. It’s a worrying revelation when you consider that the skills gap is growing all the time. With the new challenges that face businesses, and with employees as an organisation’s biggest asset, it is hard to
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Twelve workplace benefits employees dream about
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The more research we uncover around employee satisfaction and retention rates, the more apparent it becomes that companies need to give more than the basic monthly salary to gain employee loyalty. The small business experts at Brighter Business have complied a list of truly unique employee benefits, tried and tested by some of the biggest
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From training to retraining: The benefits
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As a small business owner, you and your employees can always learn something new. Whether that’s learning how to manage your books better, a new marketing technique, or refining a sales process, there is always something fresh to familiarise yourself and your staff with. Earlier this year business energy provider Love Energy Savings surveyed more
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Why your workforce isn’t working: You don’t know your staff well enough
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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 are businesses struggling to attract and retain top performing talent?
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The unemployment rate in the United Kingdom has dropped to its lowest since 1975, and employment is at its highest in the last four years, yet workers and their employers don’t appear to be better off. The CV Squad have examined why 30 per cent of UK employers said hiring had increased compared to the
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Are unpaid internships really akin to modern-day slavery?
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Andy Pearce, CEO of creative start-up thortful.com, is becoming increasingly concerned that making it a legal requirement to pay interns after four weeks’ unpaid work might be detrimental to small businesses, and also the individuals taking advantage of the many internships offered by smaller enterprises. On October 27th a private member’s bill, introduced by the
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How to elevate employee engagement levels
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Recent research from recruitment specialist Michael Page found that 73 per cent of British workers factor workplace benefits in their decision to turn down a job. From motivating your team, to retaining and attracting new talent, workplace benefits have the potential to play a big role in your business’ success. Companies such as Airbnb that
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Why we need to build a level playing field for the UK’s small businesses
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Productivity, as defined in the report as turnover per employee, shows enormous variations across the UK – driven by local factors such as skills availability and connectivity. So in the City of London, each worker at a small and medium business is worth £1.45million in company turnover. In West Somerset it falls to as little
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Dealing with conflict: Advice from a workplace mediator
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In the 1950s, Winston Churchill famously professed to prefer jaw jaw to war war. It’s a sentiment that is as true today as it ever has been, and certainly not restricted to the field of international diplomacy but valid in almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives. From the shop floor to the
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Four ways to keep teamwork alive as you scale up
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Your small team punches well above its weight, a perfect example of collaboration in action. As the team grows, the business – almost imperceptibly – holds its breath, hoping the newest recruits will up the ante, not slow the pace. But as the workforce grows from 10 to 20, then 20 to 200, the team
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