Question of the day…. Are you on LinkedIN? Statistically you are way more likely to respond positively to that than you would have been 12 months ago. LinkedIn has seen growth of 65 % increasing from 48 million members to 79 million in the year to March 2011 (now at over 100 million). In roughly […]
How do we boost the economy and create new jobs TODAY?
As I said back in May, when I put my suggestion to Vince Cable at the Greater Manchester Chamber Annual Dinner – instead of offering an NI holiday to start up businesses who employ staff (how many start up businesses do YOU know about who start up and immediately employ 4 or 5 people?? That’s […]
Do you know why 25% of Generation Y employees choose their employers??.
Do you know why 25% of Generation Y employees choose their employers?? In past years pension contributions were a big “seller”. Generation X employees were encouraged to plan for their future and the pension was something often talked about in an interview and was a serious consideration when taking a job. In recent years there […]
New Year – more New Rules. Come on Vince – give us a break!
And here we are again – it has been tough enough during the “growth” years to deal with the ever increasing amount of red tape and business regulations the Labour Government thought fit to introduce . Anyone would think they didn’t want business to make a profit – or thought that all profits made should […]
Regulation Freedom Day 10 Feb 2011
Yesterday was Regulation Freedom Day according to the IoD This is a bit like the calculation of when the average person has to work to in the year before they start earning any money after all taxes etc are taken out of their pay. So for the average company Director the 10th Feb marks how […]