If you can't measure every employee benefit you offer and how it impacts your bottom line, you're not doing it right. Yes, perks are primarily there to support your employees. They keep your people happy and improve your work culture. But you're running a business, not a charity. Any perks and benefits you offer must also have a positive, measurable impact on your metrics, whether that's performance, retention or revenue. You need a strategy to measure whether your perks a

If a tribunal claim lands on your desk, what you do next really matters. You have 28 days to act. And how you act can be the difference between successfully defending the claim and paying a large sum of money you potentially can't afford. For most small business owners, it's territory they've never been in before. So, what do you do if a claim happens tomorrow?

Recent changes in the law mean that you can't just let someone go and assume that everything will be okay. It's easier (and therefore more likely) that an employee will claim that they were let go unfairly and the amount they can claim will be uncapped from January 2027. Right now there's a limit on what a tribunal can award in most unfair dismissal cases. But, from January, there will be no compensation cap. This rule change directly affects how you hire, manage and dis

From January 2027, employees can claim that they were unfairly dismissed after just six months of employment. Anyone hired from 1 July 2026 is already in that window. The compensation cap is being removed entirely from January too. That means potentially unlimited payouts for employees who win a tribunal. Our latest guide covers what has changed, where businesses get caught out and what you need to have in place now.

From Sarah's Desk – August 2026 August has a different rhythm to July. Where family and a football tournament pulled everyone in for a few chaotic, brilliant weeks, this month is quieter and more familiar: schools are out, holiday cover rotas are in full swing, and I'm counting down the days to my own break at the end of the month. For a lot of clients, August looks the same. Annual leave requests fill the diary, and whoever's left in the office picks up the slack for everyon