How to onboard new employees, remotely.

  Onboarding new team members can be difficult and time consuming at the best of times. Now businesses are learning how to onboard remote employees during lockdown and social distancing. The key to successfully integrating new team members who are working...

Avoiding Burnout

In today’s “always-on” society, business owners and managers are under more pressure than ever.  Stress related workplace burnout is now recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an official medical diagnosis. Here are some tips to help to avoid burnout....

How likely are your customers to recommend you to a friend?

No matter how our digital world advances, word of mouth is one of the best – and cheapest – marketing tools out there for any small business. Customers are four times more likely to buy from you if they’ve been referred by a friend. Especially with so many...

High income child benefit charge and state pension

We recently looked at tax planning to minimise or eliminate the high-income child benefit to keep both husband and wife (or civil partners) looking after a child below the £50,000 threshold. Where the income of one of the individuals exceeds £60,000 such that the...