After the year we’ve had, it’s likely most of us will need a little extra money for the holidays this year.
If you could do with some extra cash, it could be worth considering your own seasonal start-up.
Here are some ideas for how you could make some extra festive cash with your own Christmas business.
2020 has been a tough year for all of us, and if you’ve been placed on furlough during lockdowns or you’ve had the misfortune of losing your job – even if you’ve just had enough of everything want to work for yourself – it might be worth considering starting up your own venture.
This could either be by doing your current job on a freelance basis or starting up your own new business.
Starting out can be costly though, in terms of both time and money, so it’s often a good idea to kick things off by working from home – you may even have no choice but to do so in the current climate.
But what businesses work well when started from home? Here are our top home business start up ideas.
Although never the healthiest of pursuits, post-work drinks – whether alcoholic or otherwise – offered an opportunity way to wind down after a day at work and connect with colleagues outside of the nine-to-five.
The coronavirus pandemic has all but put paid to this ritual and, more seriously, an end to us even mixing in the workplace.
Although we’re big advocates of the benefits of working from home, lockdown has taught us that it can lead to unhappiness and mental health issues when it’s forced upon people and it’s full time. Especially for anyone who struggles to separate home and worklife when the commute is taken out of the equaiton.
That’s why Jimmy Williams of Urban Jungle is now putting money into mental health, rather than team socials.
If you’ve considered investing in stocks and shares over the last decade, the chances are that you’ve at least flirted with the idea of Bitcoin. But what exactly is Bitcoin? Is it safe? And is now the time to invest?
Just over a quarter (27%) of business owners have cut their spending due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new social media survey. But the study from the Personal Finance Society also found that more than a third (40%) of businesses haven’t adapted or changed their financial plans at all.
Where does your business stand?
The dust has barely settled on the August Bank Holiday, but the kids are back in school, the nights are drawing in and it’s getting noticeably colder. It got so nippy at the end of August that a poll run by our friends over at UKPower found that almost half of householders had already put the heating on.
We don’t usually ask this question until at least September, but have you put the heating on yet? ?
— UKPower (@ukpower) August 28, 2020
And if people are back in the office, you can bet that the thermostat will be whacked in an attempt to keep temperatures near-tropical as staff go about their work – and when the thermostat rises, your business energy bills won’t be far behind.
So here are some top tips to to help keep utility bills down as the outside temperature drops…
It doesn’t seem like the first coronavirus wave has ended and already there’s talk of preparing for the second wave. But with the cold weather on its way back, government support schemes coming to an end, it’s going to be a tough end to the year, regardless of whether or not there is a second wave of Covid-19.
UK businesses are still feeling the effects of the first coronavirus outbreak and lockdown – many still haven’t had the chance to reopen – and are now being asked to prepare for the second wave. If you’re in the payments industry, here are some ways to stay competitive if there is another downturn.
The rumors of the second COVID-19 wave have been circling the market. With a significant number of vendors still battling the consequences of the first siege of the pandemic, keeping in mind what measures could mitigate the impact could be the difference between a ‘crash and burn’ and staying afloat.
It’s not unusual to hate your job, your boss, your colleagues, your commute – even if it’s just the odd moment of despair, we all go through times where we feel like flipping our desk and walking out. The important thing to remember is that you work to live, it’s a means to an end, it’s not the be all and end all – once that dynamic is flipped on its head, and you live to work, it’s time to re-evaluate things, else your work-life could be the death of you.
The UK has lurched into recession again – essentially its second in a decade, following the financial crisis of the late 2000s. The UK has been hit by a recession in every decade since the 1950s, but this latest one is the worst in history. Let’s take a look at what makes a recession, and whether this ‘coronavirus recession’ could see a number of businesses leave the UK for bases overseas.
The coronavirus lockdown has meant more people have been working from home than ever before. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that almost half of all of people in employment (47%) did some work at home during April 2020, the vast majority of which (86%) did so as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
But if you were told you had the chance to work from home indefinitely, what would be your main motivation for working remotely? To avoid the commute? To get away from the office politics? To improve your work/life balance?
There are all sorts of reasons over 4 million of us choose to work outside of the office – a study from Together Mutual Insurance has just taken a closer look at why telecommuting is becoming ever more popular, as well as some of our work from home habits.
Here’s what it found…