There is no universally accepted definition of a “small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).
However, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BIS) and the European Union (EU) define a small enterprise as one with fewer than 50 employees and a medium-sized enterprise as one with at least 50 but fewer than 250 employees.
Large enterprises have 250 or more employees.
Businesses with fewer than 50 workers will not have to auto-enrol their employees into workplace pension schemes before June 2015,...
Recruiting in the “noughties” was tough; it was a decade in which we were all obsessed by “Generation Y” that was...
Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University, considers the Beecroft Report’s recommendations on addressing employee underperformance.There...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) embraced the free occupational health advice line piloted by the Government between late 2009 and March...
Chancellor George Osborne has suggested that compensated no-fault dismissals could be introduced for what he called “the smallest businesses” in...
The Government has launched a new “Health for Work” sickness absence advice line that, it is hoped, will encourage smaller...
Businesses with fewer than 50 employees will not have to auto-enrol staff into pension schemes until 2015, the Government has...
Difficulty in finding the right staff is hampering the growth ambitions of so-called “micro-businesses”, according to research published today by...
More than half (52%) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) believe that freelancers are key to their stability and growth.This...
