Employees are finally getting what many self employed business owners have almost taken for granted – working from home. But there is a growing realisation for the employees and employers that will not only be familiar to the self employed small business owners, but what potentially happens next could effect them for years to come.
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With optimism coming from the vaccine rollout programme, UK SMEs expect to be hiring 1.2m staff over the next year.
Renewed optimism is the driving force behind these hiring plans, with an added desire for SMEs to grow their workforce diversity and prioritise employee wellbeing.
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Some say everything needs to be online. And they have led you to believe that everything is now actually online and you won’t succeed unless it is. Yet, as we look across the business landscape at how customers and clients are coming back to businesses, there is still a very healthy demand for face to face contact and relationship building. So the sensible and and logical thing to do is to build a business that can offer both.
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Some say everything needs to be online. And they have led you to believe that everything is now actually online and you won’t succeed unless it is. Yet, as we look across the business landscape at how customers and clients are coming back to businesses, there is still a very healthy demand for face to face contact and relationship building. So the sensible and and logical thing to do is to build a business that can offer both.
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Small Business may well be dealt a tougher hand in Post-Brexit Britain as VISA are set to notify an INCREASE in interchange fees for doing business in Europe.
The payments giant is to hike fees for purchases made by UK-based customers from most of Europe – prompting more fears of higher prices and fuelling the argument that Brexit is adding to the cost of trading with the EU.ck on their feet.
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Tears, Tiara’s and Tantrums have reverberated around the UK as loved-up couples dream days have been dashed by the global pandemic. But when Prime Minister, Boris Johnson announced his roadmap out of the worst country wide disaster since World War 2, couples started getting their plans together again and in turn, will help a devastated industry get back on their feet.
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As the dust settles on a Chancellor’s Budget speech that was more an animated short, rather than the summer blockbuster we all hoped for, there is a sense of relief for the majority of self-employed and small business owners around the UK. But there are still over 2 million self-employed and small business owners that are shaking their heads in further frustrations as quite simply, nothing has changed.
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Some are saying this is one of the most important budget speeches since World War 2. Others are frustrated at the Governments continuous ‘leaks’ to the press about what’s going to be announced later this afternoon. But there could well be more help for the self-employed which are due to be announced in the Budget, including the possibility of first grants for an estimated 600,000 people.
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