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Recession Survival

I spoke last week to a teacher whose husband’s employer was dealing with the recession by avoiding making excess stock, but taking real stock of staff training needs and using the down time to cater for them.  At a time when training budgets are being cut along with everything else, I was dead impressed at the far-thinking of an owner killing two birds with one stone, as it were, by developing his existing staff at the same time as keep unnecessary production down.  But, how else can businesses survive? Read more…

Are Storm Clouds Gathering?

The BBC and Workology, among others, have taken up the news of the British Chambers of Commerce July announcement - UK in ‘serious’ danger of recession.  Chamber Online expressed concern that business taxation might rise, squeezing an already thin profit margin, borne out by falling cashflow levels in the services and manufacturing industries.  That, added to the slowing up in house sales is making all of us decidedly twitchy… Read more…