Entrepreneurship

You can work through university without falling behind on your degree. What matters is who sets your hours and whether you can cut back during exams. Here are ten jobs that fit a busy timetable, plus what to check on pay, tax and your visa.

A £50 gift card given as a trivial benefit reaches an employee in full. The same £50 added to salary costs the employer £57.50 once employer National Insurance is added, and the employee keeps far less. Many small firms still build their benefits around what competitors offer rather than what decides an interview. Here is what attracts and keeps people, and the tax rules that apply in 2026/27.

A Christmas hamper can reach your staff free of tax and National Insurance, as long as it stays within HMRC’s trivial benefits rules. Here’s how the £50 limit and the £150 party exemption work, and which gifts go down well.

Exhausted employees are off sick more often, make more mistakes and leave sooner. Mental health benefits help prevent this, and some support can be provided without a tax charge. Here’s what to offer and what HMRC expects.

Another voucher won’t do much for team spirit. Extra time off, trust and room to grow work better. Here are creative perks a small business can offer, plus the HMRC rules on tax-free gifts and staff parties.

Remote working has gone from emergency measure to a normal part of running a business. Which trends have stuck, what UK employment law expects of you as an employer, and how to set up homeworking so it works even in a small team.

You can't spot a modern workplace by the sofa in the office or by how many people work from home. You spot it by how work is measured, how place and time are agreed, and where the working day ends. Five characteristics and three trends changing work in the UK right now.

A digital workplace is neither an office nor working from home. It is the set of tools, data and rules that lets your business run from anywhere without typing the same data twice. The layers, a five-step setup and the mistakes to avoid.