The word is spreading: today sees two companies who are regulars here on PeoplePerHour.com profiled on the BBC News homepage. Elliot Polak’s TextAppeal is featured alongside Chris Huey…
The word is spreading: today sees two companies who are regulars here on PeoplePerHour.com profiled on the BBC News homepage. Elliot Polak’s TextAppeal is featured alongside Chris Huey…
Employment, Freelance Articles
Giles Roberts, one of PeoplePerHour’s consistently top-rated and top-earning freelancers, shares his success story with us. He explains how he earned more money, learned new skills, got more savvy and most importantly, won those all-important bids from discerning clients. I decided to start working as a freelancer after having a tough time with my last [...]
Employment, Freelance Articles
A Freedom of Information Act request by PeoplePerHour recently exposed an example of public sector waste. In 2008/9 UK local councils spent an astonishing £19.1 million on third-party website agencies, up by 18.6% from 2007/8. We calculated that for government IT/Web services alone, a significant amount of £6.7 million of taxpayer’s money could be saved [...]
A list of the UK’s most in-demand IT jobs of 2010 has been released by specialist IT recruitment consultancy IntaPeople. The top 10 list is largely dominated by developers, with C# and .NET professionals topping the bill, closely followed by Java J2EE and PHP roles. Interestingly, the senior-level position of Head of IT also made [...]
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 [...]
Employment, Freelance Articles
Does ‘freelance’ mean the same as ‘self-employed’ ? Both terms are widely misused and wrongfully treated as interchangeable. The word ‘freelance’ carries no legal definition whilst self-employed does (see below). Freelance is simply a term used to describe people working independently, which could be through a variety of legal entities/capacities: (i) as a sole trader [...]
Employment, Freelance Articles
We all know that freelancers aren’t like your normal employees – we’re a funny old bunch. But just like any employee we have specific rights laid out under the Working Time Directive; this legislation offers guidance on working hours, rest breaks and holiday entitlements. The Working Time Regulations entitle all Workers and Employees to: * [...]
Employment, Freelance Articles
In some cases it can be difficult for the jobbing freelancer to work out their employment status. Without a singular legal definition to easily establish your working status, sometimes you need extra help. This quick guide aims to clarify the issue: There are three different types of working individuals: * an Employee * a Worker [...]
Employment, Entrepreneurship, General News
Yesterday, 24th of March, Alistair Darling announced new measures of support for the UK Economy’s backbone – the Small Business. These measures not only include £45bn of surplus lending for SMEs (Small and Medium-sized businesses) from state-controlled banks Lloyds and RBS, but also the establishment of a capital growth fund which is to provide investment [...]
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