Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship
Yesterday, 22nd June, chancellor George Osborne announced the much-anticipated new Budget. The cuts and new tax regulations appear to be beneficial on the whole for UK businesses, but not so much for the UK entrepreneur. The small business sector is also expected to benefit by a good number of the changes, especially micro-businesses with up [...]
Economy, Employment, Freelance Articles, General News
Tory Johnson of abc NEWS talks to PeoplePerHour.com’s CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou who explains the increasing importance of high-quality freelancers as more and more businesses take the freelance option for the long-run. Through abc NEWS, PeoplePerHour.com reaches out to an audience of 42 million all over the world, proving its establishment as a fundamental player in [...]
Economy, Freelance Articles, General News
PeoplePerHour.com has now published the 4th of a series of Small Business Reviews, exposing UK council spend on third-party website agencies as “extreme and unnecessary”. The latest report, entitled “How the public sector is overspending”, analyzes and compares private and public sector spend on Web Services. The following results are based on our latest survey [...]
Economy, Entrepreneurship, General News
Rising fuel prices will hit small firms hard and could cost thousands of jobs across the UK, comparison site Constructaquote.com has warned. Last week, it was revealed that petrol prices across the country had hit a record average high of £1.20 a litre. Experts have since warned that the price of diesel could also be [...]
Intuit UK has now revealed results from its recent survey of 1000 small business owners on its Small Business Charter. Below, we list those that we consider to be of most relevance to PeoplePerHour.com’s small business users: • 84% of respondents labeled good customer service as a key contributor to their success of attracting new [...]
Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles
Results of a new extensive report produced by the PCG (Professional Contractors Group) entitled ‘Freeing up Growth’ enhances our belief that freelancer is now the new employee, small is the new big and virtual is replacing traditional. The PCG proclaims the flexibility of an independent, freelance workforce as vital to business prosperity in the UK. [...]
Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles
You have all probably been bombarded with links to blogs entitled something like ‘Top 10 ways to make Money in 2010’, ‘Top 10 New Year resolutions for Small Businesses’, ‘Make a Million a Month Online’ and so on and so on, and more so as 2009 approached its end and 2010 began. And you’ve probably [...]
Economy, Freelance Articles, New Features
Thanks to your loyal support, Peopleperhour has now grown to be the largest community of small businesses in the UK and Europe with over 48,000 active users. Our newly launched PPH Economy is where we showcase fascinating data from that community, revealing trends on what services are most in demand, in which parts of the [...]
Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles
A big thank you to all those who’ve taken our PPH Small Business Survey. To date we’ve had 410 respondents with the following average demographics 84% employ less than 10 employees Average size by turnover: £314k 20% based in greater London Area 18% are both Buyers and Providers on PPH Main findings from buyer (client) [...]
More than five million people are working from home after finishing their day job, according to new research published this week. The survey, commissioned by the world’s biggest office products company Staples, and carried out by Enterprise Nation, the UK’s largest website for home based business, confirms that the ‘5 to 9’ trend is spreading [...]
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