Hiring your first staff member is exciting, worrying and overwhelming all at the same time. The employee that you will hire will hopefully help you turn your business into the business of your dreams. You must think properly when hiring any staff, that you are collaborating with them rather than dictating their every move. Working together as oppose to dictating their environment and workflow will empower your staff members and, in turn, see them working at their maximum potential.

If you were to ask someone what they felt was most important to their job right now, they’d probably say job security. Right now, people are more afraid than ever about losing their jobs, having to halt or restart their careers, or losing financial gains they may have made over the past months.

Life after Coronavirus is a while away, and when we get there, it is going to look very different. Industries across the world have taken a huge hit as the global economy heads toward a crash, taking with them millions of jobs. In America alone, around 30 million people have filed for unemployment benefits since mid-March, with the UK and other European countries releasing similar troubling statistical trends.

The transition from work-life to home-life is relaxing in many aspects but focusing on work has become harder than ever. Unlike in our work environments, there are many distractions ranging from being able to access our phones to having to work in the same place as your spouse, children or flatmates.