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Whilst we are celebrating International Women’s Day today I wanted to remember that good business partnerships are often founded on couples going into business together whose strengths lie in diverse, but complimentary, areas. So often we hear the catchcry “Behind every good man there is a great woman”, as if his success depends on this […]

When I was working as a recruitment consultant in the early 90’s, the temporary desk was responsible for about 10% of the split between temporary recruitment and permanent recruitment. My MD who had been in the game for about 30 years predicted that within the next 30 years the temporary workforce would make up 30% […]

So over the past two weeks you may have heard some rumblings about some potential changes to FWA, particularly around flexible working and rostering. If you haven’t, as an SME, you need to get across this as soon as possible. There are more details to follow and timings are vague, but things may move quickly […]

It hurts doesn’t it? When someone in your team decides to leave you after you have invested significant time and money in them. Just think about it – there was the recruitment drive, recruitment fees, onboarding, induction, on the job training, external training and time till they were fully functional. Plus the financial ‘on costs’ […]

It’s the biggest secret all managers want to know – the Holy Grail if you will. How do I get more out of my employees? An extra 10% effort on their part would make the world of difference and potentially add 19% to the bottom line – but how do I organise this?Well let me […]

Every business has one ‘problem’ or non-performing employee and if you don’t, I would suspect that you are probably not being completely honest with yourself. It is a competitive world and if you are going to succeed, you not only need to ‘win the war for talent’, you need to retain it. If an individual […]

I wanted to write this morning about my driver; my bus driver to be precise, who does one of the most stressful and undervalued jobs in the world! This bus driver has compelled me to ring his employer on at least two occasions to comment on his excellent customer service – then he disappeared and […]

Hang on I think I have that wrong – isn’t it meant to be the season to be jolly or to rest? One of the challenges of working for yourself is that your boss can be a real *****! So why do we do it to ourselves? One of the challenges is the level of […]

So, as we have just recently said goodbye to 2012 and welcomed in 2013, I thought it was a good opportunity to reflect over the summer holiday on our first year and what we wanted from our second year of operation. I suspect that many businesses do not take the time to reflect; they are […]

So as 2012 draws to a close and Employee Matters celebrates its first year in business I thought that this is a great time to both reflect on the year and also thank our clients for their support. We started our client-facing work in earnest in Feb 2012 with one client – TP3, but as […]