Silly season is almost here. Or so we hear in the media. But what does silly season mean? Where does the saying come from? And does it exist at all? Silly season was a phrase coined right here in the UK and is actually connected to the annual shut down of parliament over the summer …
Small business. The term may include the word small but there’s nothing insignificant about the SME business arena in the UK. FSB statistics showed that at the start of 2017 small businesses accounted for 99.3% of all private sector businesses and 99.9% were small or medium-sized (SMEs). SMEs employed 16.1 million people which makes up …
8am – Today I’m booked in to transcribe an interview. We tend to transcribe a number of these which could range from interviews conducted for grievance or disciplinary hearings to journalist-led interviews for media outlets. 11:45am – I have a large monitor where I can split the screen so I can easily access information from different sources. A message …