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Working with clients in your home country is one thing, but working with freelance clients across the globe creates a new set of challenges. Managing international payments, working across different time zones, and cultural differences can make…

We all get sick from time to time. But being a one-person business can make illness inconvenient, stressful, and challenging. Unlike full-time folks, freelance writers can’t phone in sick and pass on their responsibilities to a colleague. They don’t…

Despite many organisations increasing their efforts on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B) initiatives, neurodivergent individuals are often overlooked in the diversity conversation. Neurodiverse people often experience higher rates…

Businesses have seen a significant transformation in how they operate in recent years. The pandemic, rising inflation, and scarce, expensive talent have led to half of HR leaders seeing an increase in recruitment competition. Since your people are…

The feast or famine of a successful writing career can mean sitting for hours at a computer. Include the increased usage of mobile phones, and it’s hardly surprising that wrist pain can affect many writers. According to the Health and Safety…

Tracy Rawlinson is a freelance HR writer with more than 30 years of HR-related experience across local government and non-profit organisations. A new HRIS system might not be met with great fanfare – but little do your employees know, their working…

Training courses might look great on paper, but are they necessary to become a successful freelance writer? Spending money and effort on training courses can delay you from actually doing the thing you get paid for–writing. And when they’re not…

Working out what it takes to carve out a successful and satisfying freelance writing career is challenging. Managing clients, accounting, and setting boundaries are just some of the problems freelance writers face. Additionally, there are an…

The decision to quit a full-time job to freelance can be challenging. Let’s be honest: a regular income, free training, and access to company benefits (such as holiday pay and health insurance) are all logical reasons to stay in full-time employment.…

First off, what is TUPE transfer? A Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) or TUPE is a regulatory requirement that protects a worker’s terms and conditions of employment. The UK regulations were first passed in 1981, updated in 2006,…

There’s a raft of employment laws and legislation businesses need to comply with, and the Working Time Regulations 1998 is one of them. The Working Time Regulations UK (also known as the Working Time Directive or WTR for short) is a critical piece of…

Getting the best out of your people is perhaps one of the most important factors for any successful business. Why? Because employees are your greatest asset. Each staff member brings different skills and experience, overcoming difficulties and…

Ask freelancers what their number one pain-in-the-ass difficulty with running a business is, and you bet they’ll say onboarding new clients. Incompatible values, unclear expectations, and unrealistic timescales all result in project delays—or worse,…

Nearly 80% of the global workforce is made up of “deskless” workers, such as those in retail, logistics, manufacturing, education, or hospitality. Deskless workers have the highest staff turnover rates. Constant turnover is very expensive–costing…

With job opportunities increasingly slim in the west country, more and more people are working out how to run their own business online. In fact running an online business and catering to a global audience has never been easier. But saying it’s easy…

Podcasts have become more popular than ever. The number of people listening to one has increased year on year, from 8.9 million listeners in 2017 to 16.7 listeners in 2021. It’s hardly surprising. Podcasts are easy to digest, flexible, and jam-packed…

Time-based tracking doesn’t just create the conditions for better planning and milestone marking, it can help to create lots of valuable employee performance data as well as bring better HR systems integration – around elements such as sickness…