If you’ve ever started up your own business, you’ll appreciate that one of the toughest decisions you have to make is what to call your new venture. A business name has to work in a number of ways – it has to be something that reflects your brand identity, says something about what you offer, […]
Updated Wednesday, June 7, 2017 Working from home is more popular than ever in the UK, but it’s not for everyone and massive companies such as Yahoo and HP have taken the decision to reduce or even cut out flexible working completely. The trouble is, employees have come to expect flexible working, which means it […]
The UK is a pretty unstable place right now – as we outlined in our last blog, the snap general election, and the ongoing confusion over any Brexit deal means the future is uncertain for UK-based businesses and their employees. This means that you, as a business owner, need to be tuned in than ever into […]
Canada has many cultural, historic, and linguistic links with the UK, and it is the UK’s 16th largest export market for goods. The UK is Canada’s sixth largest source of goods imports and second largest services trading partner, and the latest export figures show UK goods and service exports to Canada were worth £7.5 billion […]
Napoleon Bonaparte once famously described the UK as a ‘nation of shopkeepers’, and, while that description might not quite hold up some 200 years later, it’s certainly true that the UK is a nation of small to medium enterprises (SMEs). And the success of each SME is essential to the prosperity of the UK economy, […]
Cloud computing is a technology that enables companies to manage data and files online, rather than on a computer’s hard drive, and has been a driving force behind the growth of flexible working across the UK. And 2017 is expected to be the year when we reach the tipping point where flexible working becomes more common than […]
Belgium is an affluent and multicultural nation with an open market that offers opportunities to businesses in most sectors. There are over 1,000 public and private international organisations with headquarters in Belgium, including some big-name UK businesses such as BP, BT and Shell. Belgium is the UK’s eighth largest export market – worth £12.5 billion in 2014 […]
Video conferencing has been thrust into the mainstream with apps like Skype and G+ Hangouts – no need for expensive VC equipment, just a smartphone and an internet connection does the trick these days. The trouble is, it’s never quite that simple – internet connections vary, buffering or lagging can interrupt things, and video calling […]
Flexible working is more common in the workplace than ever before – it’s even enshrined in legislation, following the introduction of new flexible working laws in 2014 – but reports that the traditional nine-to-five is dead appear to be well wide of the mark. According to a survey from Britain’s Healthiest Workplace, almost three quarters (73%) of UK […]
We’re predicting 2017 will be the year remote working really takes off as advances in mobile technology and changing lifestyle needs mean more and more workers will say goodbye to the traditional nine-to-five. As we discussed here, if your business is to undergo a successful digital transformation, then remote working needs to be at the centre […]