If you’re a business owner or HR manager, there’s a good chance you’ve lost hours to tasks that felt more like admin than actual people management. You’re not alone. Employment Hero commissioned research 95% of SMEs say they have challenges managing employment and HR processes. The Work That Works report also found that over half … [Read more…]
Unpaid invoices create problems for any small company, squeezing cash flow. So how can you prevent this situation and allow your business to breathe? The first step is to calculate your Accounts Receivable Turnover Ratio (ARTR), which can also boost the long-term financial health of your business. The accounts receivable turnover ratio measures how efficiently … [Read more…]
In 2026, keeping your best people is one of the toughest challenges for UK SMEs. In a tight talent market, it’s becoming clear that businesses need to be offering more than a competitive salary to build a loyal team. But if pay isn’t enough, it leads to the question, what really makes employees stay? While … [Read more…]
As an accountant or bookkeeper, Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax represents something fundamental: a shift in how your work is organised, priced, and delivered throughout the year. Conversations with practitioners over the past year—at events run by ICAEW, ICB, and others—suggest that most firms have spent time getting ready for MTD in some … [Read more…]
UK workers took an average of 9.4 sick days in 2025 — the highest figure in 15 years, according to the CIPD. That level of absence is already stretching HR teams and eating into budgets. From the 6th of April 2026, paying for that absence gets more expensive too. Three Statutory Sick Pay changes take … [Read more…]
Artificial intelligence is already changing how accounting and bookkeeping work gets done. If you’re like many practitioners, you’re already using AI tools daily. Tasks get completed faster. Admin shrinks. Communication sharpens. On the surface, that looks like progress. But there’s a second effect that deserves more attention. As AI reduces the time required to complete … [Read more…]
LEEDS, 9 April 2026: Full-time employment across the UK is growing nearly three times faster than part-time work, according to new data from Employment Hero, a global leader in HR, hiring and payroll software. Analysis of anonymised records from more than 100,000 employees found that full-time roles grew 13.4% year-on-year in 2026 to date, compared … [Read more…]
Artificial intelligence is not creating a completely new class of cyber threat. What it’s doing is making familiar attacks faster to launch, easier to tailor, and harder to stop in time. That distinction matters. For years, organisations have dealt with phishing, social engineering, account compromise, vulnerability exploitation, and ransomware. None of that’s new. What has … [Read more…]
If you’re reading this, the chances are you’re a sole trader or landlord who has just been told—or has just realised—that Making Tax Digital for Income Tax now applies to you. First things first: don’t panic. You have time, the rules are more manageable than you might think, and you are far from alone in … [Read more…]
When employees are financially stressed, that stress doesn’t stay at home — it walks through the door with them every morning. Zellis’s 2025 Financial Wellbeing Report revealed that 92% of UK employees experienced financial stress in the past year, with 89% saying it directly affected their work performance. Nearly half struggle to focus. Over a … [Read more…]