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The impact of Covid-19 on employment has been devastating for people around the world. So many have lost jobs, while others have been furloughed on reduced salaries with no guarantee that there will be work at the end of furlough. Many businesses have closed, including major chains, or have gone online with a reduced need...

In the middle of a pandemic, it is understandable that struggling small businesses are wondering when they will be able to get back to operating as they did before. The short answer is that, in most cases, they cannot. The pandemic has not only affected the businesses, but also their customers. In retail customers have...

With the pandemic still in full swing and employment rising, it is likely that more and more people will look to starting their own business to survive. Even in 2020 we saw some entrepreneurial ideas from people that would not accept unemployment as inevitable. We also saw an increase in the number of women prepared...

Often I get Linkedin requests to join up and I always look first at their profile before accepting the invitation. One of the key things that I look at is the job title. Unfortunately, increasingly that title will include the word ‘Influencer’. Throughout our life we are influenced by a multiplicity of people, starting with...

Recently I was party to two people using social media for video communication. At first I marvelled at the technology that allowed them to see and hear over a distance of 6500 miles. A wireless device at no additional cost to their normal Internet provision achieved all this. But then I started to focus on...

For several months now we have watched governments trying to deal with Covid-19. Every country is trying to deal with something totally new and each country has to face different environments. The countries are all of different sizes and population densities. Each country has a different concept of freedom versus responsibility. Each country has a...

We see governments across the world trying to contain a pandemic whilst, at the same time, trying to keep the economy on life support. We also see the governments trying to treat this new phenomenon in the same way as they did in the past. They impose rules and throw money at the problem. This...

As I have talked about in previous posts, the move to a technology based environment has been accelerated rather than slowed up in the pandemic. Whether ordering online, or using a check-in app rather than writing down one’s details at every location visited, the ageing luddites have come into the 21st Century. A month ago...

I think it has been acknowledged by most people that there is something called a ‘new normal’ as the result of Covid-19. This assumes that you are not one of the conspiracy theorists that believe that this whole pandemic is a hoax perpetrated by Bill Gates for every reason from power and more money to...

One of the key ways that SMEs have been supported in many countries across the world has been through organised support structures. In the case of high-tech, high potential businesses there has been additional specialist support; often linked to universities and funding groups. But for the run of the mill self-employed person or small traditional...