The Situation: Covid-19 and Its Fallout Our client was a medium-sized company, with 22 employees. Unfortunately, as a result of a downturn in business resulting from the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the firm needed to reduce overheads, and thus with regret, redundancies were on the cards. The Task: To Assess the Situation in Full, and Agree […]
Read moreThe Situation: growth became an unmanageable problem Our client became a victim of its own successful growth. Or, could have become so. Starting small, with just a few employees posed no problem for this business in terms of people management. However, fast-forward to the time of HR Business Consultants’ appointment, and the numbers had increased […]
Read moreThe Situation: two offices equalled higher overheads Our client’s two-centre operation had started to create financial problems: neither office was fully staffed, yet operational costs were high. Outgoings on essentials were affecting turnover and profits. The Task: reducing, rationalising, and reforming for business benefits It goes without saying that we required a full, in-the-round understanding […]
Read moreWhat was the problem? Over the years this company had purchased different companies and merged with other companies so had 120 employees on variety of different contracts, benefits, hours, overtime. The company carried on because it seemed like too much trouble to sort out What we did We came in and documented every contract to […]
Read moreWhat was the problem? This company did not have a large turnover of staff but they found that they were not getting the right person for the right job. So they either moved that person to another role, accepted the person could not do the role to the standard they wanted or they left. What […]
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