Women in technology are finding more opportunities online than on-site, demonstrating the rise of skilled female professionals and their impact on economic and social change, according to a global survey by online work platform Elance.com.…
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An online toolkit that provides employers with help when taking on their first employee has been launched by Employment Relations Minister Jo Swinson today.…
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Legal experts at Contact Law give some advice on what you need to do when hiring new staff.
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The early months of the year mark an important time to consider how managers are going to help build successful, sustained engagement by helping more employees become ‘Investors’ (employees who have a strong emotional bond with the organisation and identify closely with its purpose) as opposed to ‘Savers’ (employees who do the job but don’t connect emotionally with it). Management consultant Jane Sparrow gives some tips.…
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Most of us are familiar with the idea of learning in a classroom environment, having spent a great part of our younger years at school. Some people find this an overwhelmingly positive experience, whereas others can't wait to leave compulsory education. For many distance learning might be the way to catch up, says the Home Learning College.…
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It is an exciting time when you realise that your small business, begun as a part time home working opportunity needs to take on staff.…
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A home based business can quickly grow to one with one or more employees and a mum who took on a business venture to work for herself at home can suddenly find herself as an employer with responsibilities towards a workforce.
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All employers have to have employee liability insurance so that if anyone employed in the business is injured or becomes ill because of the work they are doing, they will be able to be compensated.
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Next week is National Family Week and being a working mum and balancing the commitments of your job and your family is often tough. Nicola Bird of Jigsaw Box has some tips.
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Sarah Faisal Al Saud has set up her own company making educational apps in Arabic for preschoolers. She talks to Workingmums.co.uk.
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The BBC is developing a new employment test for freelancers in a bid to replace them with employees, according to ContractorCalculator which provides free expert advice to over 100,000 freelancers and contractors.
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