The moment when Lord Sugar points the finger and gives the contestants their marching orders has gone down in TV folklore.
But I’ve never seen him ask someone to complete a task after firing them. After all, they’re fired: why would they?
Bizarrely though, we’ve seen employers attempting to do this a couple of times recently.
The first one was a club who’d made someone redundant after 20 years of service.Read More…
It’s not the easiest time to be a business owner, what with staff shortages, inflation, cost of living, Brexit and Ukraine.
Which makes it the natural moment for the government to make your life even harder.
From next Friday, sick notes (officially Fit Notes) can be officially signed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists.
Gone are the days when only GPs that could sign them, making it pretty easy to work out if they were genuine.
I went shopping last weekend.
The official reason was to buy birthday presents for others, but you know how things go:
I found myself in my favourite perfume shop, L’Occitane.
I’ve been wearing Oud & Rose since last summer, which I really love, so I thought I’d treat myself to a new bottle.
No.
They did have a perfume with Oud in it, but not the one I bought last August, as that’s been discontinued.
I wasn’t in the mood for something new, so I walked out.
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Being a full-time business owner and mum is great. But it takes its toll in the summer.
I had a plan to write something about the whole ‘back to school’ period, but then I came across something written by a friend of mine, Sara Southey, which is beautifully put, so rather than write my own, I thought I’d just share it with you.
Enjoy….
Don’t get me wrong I love the summer holidays. Family time and seeing my kids chilled and happy without the school pressures is a blessing, mostly.
However, I run my business from home. I timetable my day so that I can always fit in my ‘me time’ around my work and the kids school hours.
Me time is my exercise time to keep my body fit and my mind sane. It is an essential and necessary part of my life to keep me in tip top shape for my life. But what, in term time, is a well-oiled machine turns into chaos in the holidays!
Me time is harder to maintain in the holidays and could easily not happen at all. Distractions abound. Kids everywhere, no quiet, no space and many taxi requests to various friends’ homes.
It is challenging to get my work done, let alone have my regular me time!
Which means it’s even more important to find the time. If I’m not looking after myself, I won’t have the energy to look after others.
My solution? I’ve been getting up at silly o’clock before the teenagers wake up. Keeping my workout simple and quick at home. While the house sleeps, I get the workout done!
Keeping control of my health and fitness has helped me cope with the holiday chaos. Knowing I have that dedicated morning time means I am more patient with unexpected disruptions. Working out early gives me more time during the day to work and play.
Now it’s almost September and the teens are bored and are starting to turn into Kevins. So, it is time. Time to return them back to school. Time for the well-oiled machine to come back. I’m looking forward to the peace and quiet. I am only feeling slightly guilty about wishing the last few days of the holidays away!
Stay Strong!
Sara Southey
Fitness Coach
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just released its sickness figures for 2021. And they aren’t as bad as you might think.
In 2021 approximately 149.3 million working days were lost due to sickness or injury. Which sounds a lot but is the same as just 4.6 days per worker per year.
The most common reason for sickness absence was “Other” conditions, which accounted for 41.5 million lost days. This includes accidents, poisonings, infectious diseases, skin disorders, diabetes, and anything else not covered. From April 2020, interviewers were advised to code any mention of Coronavirus as ‘Other’, when a supplementary question was asked.
Coronavirus absence accounted for 24% of all sickness absence.
I was talking to a club the other week who’d got themselves in a sticky situation, pension wise.
An employee had left them back in February and had come back to them to let them know that his pensions was now “set up” and ready for them to make payments.
Got the foggiest? No, we didn’t either.
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