It's great to finally report that Bretonside is fully open to through traffic, a week early too. Having the gas works right outside our front door has been tricky at times, but we thank the contractors for getting the work done quickly, and listening to our concerns too. Thank you too all clients who've visited during the works, we know it's been challenging.
The contrast between the gasworks by Wales & West and the Gdynia Way roadworks however remains marked - the latter are an embarrassment to the authorities in Plymouth. These works are months and months late and are without doubt causing permanent and long term damage to the economy of Plymouth. Driving past the roadworks on Saturday, mid morning, no workers anywhere, and lanes cordoned off. Compare that to the W&W teams, doing 10.5 hour days, 7 days a week.
Sunday 21 August 2011
Tuesday 8 March 2011
We're on iPatter.com!
iPatter.com is a new SME focussed social networking platform, allowing small businesses to get their message across to other businesses and / or consumers either locally or nationally.
It has great potential to cut through the noise associated with Twitter and Facebook - the premise being that businesses register as 'Broadcasters' and post up to one 'Patter' a day - it could be an offer, an update, a piece of news.....whatever really.
The key thing being there is only one message a day - this way the key business messages don't get drowned out. Signing up and posting a profile and patters is free - here.
Hope you find it useful for your business!
Saturday 26 February 2011
Have Your Say - Small Business Owner Survey for Gov
TaxAssist Accountants have been asked to work with Government to survey the views of small business. Please take this opportunity to make your point of view.
The survey comprises of six questions and can be completed very quickly. All respondents of the survey can rely on complete anonymity.
Please click here to complete the survey.
Thank you for your time!
Alex @ TaxAssist Accountants
The survey comprises of six questions and can be completed very quickly. All respondents of the survey can rely on complete anonymity.
Please click here to complete the survey.
Thank you for your time!
Alex @ TaxAssist Accountants
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Mixed Messages on Red Tape
We think that there are few confusing / conflicting messages coming out of government at the moment when it comes to small businesses and legislation.
One of the key mantras of the coalition has been about cutting red tape and allowing business owners to get down to doing business rather than faffing with rules and regs all the time. We've even had talk of a two year period during which employers would effectively been able to hire and fire at will, as opposed to the current one year.
Ultimately - the more flexible the workplace can become, then the better for the country surely in terms of giving employers the flexibility to grow their businesses and thereby steering us out of these dark recessionary times?
Well maybe. Flexibility comes at a price - take it too far, and it has the opposite effect. Take the announcement yesterday on parents mixing maternity and paternity entitlements. Sounds great for the parents, and for large employers with plenty of staff to mop up workloads its likely to work well.
Take the small employer though - if mum decides she's going back to work 3 months early, and dad wants the balance of her time off as paternity, then dad's employer has to find cover at short notice for 3 months. Realistically, for a small employer, that will be unworkable, and you'll end up with a small company struggling financially to get expensive short term cover in - businesses will fail.
We think flexibility is great, but only within a framework that is workable for everyone.
One of the key mantras of the coalition has been about cutting red tape and allowing business owners to get down to doing business rather than faffing with rules and regs all the time. We've even had talk of a two year period during which employers would effectively been able to hire and fire at will, as opposed to the current one year.
Ultimately - the more flexible the workplace can become, then the better for the country surely in terms of giving employers the flexibility to grow their businesses and thereby steering us out of these dark recessionary times?
Well maybe. Flexibility comes at a price - take it too far, and it has the opposite effect. Take the announcement yesterday on parents mixing maternity and paternity entitlements. Sounds great for the parents, and for large employers with plenty of staff to mop up workloads its likely to work well.
Take the small employer though - if mum decides she's going back to work 3 months early, and dad wants the balance of her time off as paternity, then dad's employer has to find cover at short notice for 3 months. Realistically, for a small employer, that will be unworkable, and you'll end up with a small company struggling financially to get expensive short term cover in - businesses will fail.
We think flexibility is great, but only within a framework that is workable for everyone.
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