How well are small businesses protected by their banks ?
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We all expect our bank to indemnify us against criminal activity: but that’s being challenged now, and we may not be protected at all in the future.
The Wall Street Journal recently led with a story about Sign Designs, a small company in California who’d had their on-line account just about emptied: $100k sent to 17 [...]
22February
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Should you support your employees’ own IT devices ?
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According to the latest research from Forrester Consulting, then no. Forrester found that 52% of companies currently refuse to support their users’ own phones or smartphones. But they believe that soon, you’ll have to: they say that by 2012, enterprise mobile workers will make up 73% of the workforce.
Their research shows that many companies are [...]
22January
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68% of UK SMEs expect to hold on to their employees over the coming year
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In its latest Small Business Finance Barometer study, Close Invoice Finance, part of the FTSE 250 merchant banking group Close Brothers Group PLC, has revealed that 68% of SMEs – almost 3.2m companies nationwide – expect their employee base to be unaffected by job losses over the next 12 months. Only 7% of SME owners [...]