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  • Lack of online offering costs Primark £1.6bn in lost lockdown sales
  • Network Rail chairman predicts 10% reduction in train need post pandemic
  • Extension of stamp duty holiday ‘could help 300,000 sales’
  • Number of UK workers on Covid furlough scheme rose to 4.7m in January
  • Airbnb predicts ‘significant’ travel rebound
  • 5,000 jobs at risk as Asda shifts its focus to online shopping
  • Aston Martin hits reverse as lock down restrictions cause £320m loss as sales collapse
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Columns, blogs and opinion from some of the UKs leading business opinion makers and entrepreneurs and small business owners

Just call me ‘Mystic Mullins’ – vaccine passports ready in weeks as my crystal ball predicted

24 February 2021 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

As I gazed into my crystal ball a few weeks ago it struck me that vaccine passports were the future.

No jab, no job debate is about public and workforce safety, pure and simple

25 January 2021 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

Who’d have thought putting the health and safety of your people and the public first would create such a fuss!

WFH, algorithms and multi-million-pound fines: the year in data protection

16 December 2020 Columns, Legal Jon Belcher 8 Comments

My final column of 2020 is in two parts. In this first part, I reflect on what a strange year we’ve had – picking out some of the highlights from an information law perspective

Furlough exposes employers to potential breach of contract claims

12 November 2020 Columns Nikki Hesford 24 Comments

With the first UK lockdown coming with little advanced warning, furlough and other Government financial support schemes were initiated quickly and not a lot of guidance was readily available on the finer details.

Lender appetite is diminishing – here’s 3 alternatives if your bank says no

11 November 2020 Advice, Columns, Opinion Caroline Plumb OBE 71 Comments

The deadline for starting an application for a government-backed loan has been extended to January 31st 2021, but lender appetite is diminishing. What should you do and who do you turn to when you need working capital and the bank says no?

Working from home leaves business owners exposed to data breach claims

25 September 2020 Columns, Legal Nikki Hesford 4 Comments

Last week the UK Government u-turned on its recommendation for employees to return to the office and the official position is now that employee’s should work from home ‘if they can’.

Rishi’s latest measures are only necessary because his Government doesn’t have the stomach for a fight!

24 September 202025 September 2020 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 2 Comments

Today the chancellor put back the date when the UK will recover from the coronavirus crisis.

Three simple questions to test your business’s sales commission plan

24 September 2020 Advice, Columns John Cunningham 3 Comments

If you employ salespeople to sell your company’s products and services, it is more than likely that you have a sales commission plan in place.

As furlough ends employers have a duty to be honest with their workers

17 September 2020 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 69 Comments

Rishi Sunak’s desperate pleading with company bosses not to lay off their furloughed employees once the scheme ends next month will cut no ice with those who must balance the books in the real world of business. 

Ten tips to ensure your podcast preparation is a success

18 August 202018 August 2020 Columns Cherry Martin 6 Comments

Podcasting is a fantastic way to share your ideas and enthusiasm for your role with a captive audience.

How to make a QR code menu for your restaurant or bar in the Post-COVID-19 lockdown

9 July 202017 November 2020 Business, Columns Business Matters 2 Comments

QR code menu allows guests to digitally view the menu items, avoiding them to touch the physical menu!  

Extended furlough – a big win for Directors?

15 May 2020 Columns, Opinion Nikki Hesford 2 Comments

This week the Government announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme would be extended until October, however from August while workers will continue to receive 80% of their salary, new rules will mean that employers share the cost.

New Year: Setting Goals, NOT Resolutions

7 January 20207 January 2020 Columns, Health and Wellbeing Carole Spiers 0 Comments

How many times have you heard ‘New Year, New You’? 

Automated Facial Recognition Technology (AFR): Big Brother in action?

30 October 20195 November 2019 Columns, Legal Simon Stokes 0 Comments

Artificial intelligence continues to be in the news. One area that has hit the headlines recently is the use of AFR – automated facial recognition technology – which is now well established.

Betting on a bundle of rights – how the law protects data

30 August 2019 Columns, Legal, Opinion Simon Stokes 0 Comments

Data is the oil of the digital economy – whether it’s personal data or other sorts of data.

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Lack of online offering costs Primark £1.6bn in lost lockdown sales

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