Freelancer confidence drops despite pay rates remaining strong
Freelance workers’ confidence has taken a hit, with some blaming Brexit and government policy.
Tag: HR
Trend towards self-employment continues despite economic uncertainty
Lots of people in the UK are choosing to “reset” their lives and careers and going self-employed, despite the uncertain economic climate.
How to improve visibility of expense spend across a growing workforce
If you’re looking to make your startup a scale-up, you need to get a few things right from day one. Here’s a guide.
Getting fast recruitment right when staff are the face of a brand
Online customer engagement company Chat Shop prides itself on the quality of the real-time customer service it provides but has found fast recruitment a challenge. Here’s how the problem was solved.
People technology and solutions for growing businesses
Whether you need new skills to help you develop, or temporary and seasonal staff to work at busy times, getting the right employees onboard quickly and easily is crucial.
Businesses with foreign staff should prepare for immigration challenges
By Staff writer
?What the country needs now more than ever is certainty,” Theresa May stated outside number 10. This is no more the case than for businesses with foreign staff.
One entrepreneur’s approach to solving the revolving door recruitment issue
Rant & Rave’s Nigel Shanahan is on one business mission?” to create ravers for life and ensure his company does not have a single recruitment issue.
The importance of employee engagement during auto-enrolment
By Staff writer
With auto-enrolment now in its fifth year, many more SMEs will be approaching a staging date in 2017. As such, Kevin Hilton, financial planner at Garbutt + Elliott Wealth Management, examines the importance of employee engagement during auto-enrolment.
The importance of a reference checking process asking only the right questions
By Staff writer
In the excitement that follows finding the right candidate, employers often forget that the reference checking process is an important part of recruitment.
Start tackling the reasons why employees hate their job
By Lee Biggins
Over a third of employees hate their job. This is resulting in 84.4 per cent of the nation’s workers looking for new work in a bid to escape the factors that make their job so unbearable.