Subcontracting is when, as a company or individual, you enter into a contractual agreement with a third party to perform a task, shift or job of work. This third party may be a person or corporate body. In an arrangement like this the third party is known as a subcontrac

In May 2014, we wrote a blog all about how exceptionally excited our PARiM team members were. That time it was because Paul, one of our developers, had started building the PARiM mobile Android application! Well, as lots of you will know, he did a brilliant job and it’s fantastic! Now in January 2015, we are all back on the edge of our seats AGAIN! Why?

These days there are all types of events and marketing including corpor

In 2015, time will be an even more valuable and scarce resource for directors and managers of SME’s and I expect many more to utilise staff management software having understood the opportunities that staff management software provides them to improve their business and management style.

This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog looks again at the Financial Management part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide.

It’s now been almost a couple of years since the very first version of PARiM workforce management software was launched.

This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog looks at the Financial Management part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide.

This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog looks at the COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide

This week my PARiM Workforce Management Software blog continues to look at the PROCESSES part of the SIA’s ACS Self Assessment Workbook Guide and deals with the detail of this section.

In this series of nine blogs I am attempting to simplify and suggest ways to help your company meet the requirements as laid out in the Self Assessment Workbook Guide. In my opinion the more companies achieve and maintain ACS Accreditation the better. The guide details what you, your company, your staff and clients need to do in order for

There are many security companies in the U.K and many start up each year. Through the SIA the UK Government is rightly keen that the security industry be regulated and security companies be encouraged to seek accreditation and affirmation that their systems and procedures are suitable to provide a recognisable and reliable security service to individual

What are an SMEs fixed assets? Fixed assets are assets that are purchased by a business for use within that business and can include land, machines, office equipment, trademarks, tablets, pcs, mobile phones and uniforms.

You don’t have to be a communication guru to be good at communicating but it helps when dealing with some of the stakeholders in your business; management, staff or clients. You can reduce the sheer volume of information you communicate by sharing some of it online rather than face to face. Either way many things need to be considered when improving the efficiency of your communication. Being a good and effective communicator is one of the most valuable skills to have

Last week I wrote about some of the challenges facing Start Ups and SME’s and in this blog I would like to continue with another one of the key issues they face. The time required for the strategic planning and why you, as a Startup or SME should make it a priority.

As the founder or director of a start up or a SME, there are many challenges and demands on your time especially if you are expanding. You are often the key person within the business the fulcrum around which the business and staff pivot, the glue that keeps it all together and paradoxically the oil that smoothes its operation from service delivery to staff management. It can be a very difficult and demanding task even if you have a solid dependable lieutenant by your side, capable of eating administration tasks for breakfas

Essential to the ongoing financial success of a business is its profitability and cashflow. This profitability will depend on many factors including the skill and management expertise of the individuals within the business.

Employees can set themselves unavailable for any period of time by going to their shift calendar in the staff portal, clicking on a day in it and setting the dates of the unavailability.

Workforce management in layman’s terms is the task of managing or handling your employees, staff or workforce. That’s managing their hours, the tasks they do, the scheduling of both of these, their overall workload, their allocation to specific jobs, tasks or shifts and the communication with them.

You can add expenses to shifts. Here’s how:

According to Staffing Industry Analysts and the latest Comensura Government Index, during April 2013 to March 2014, temporary labour usage in local authorities and other public bodies increased by a total of +2.7%. The increase shows that local authorities are continuously more eager to use temporary workforce to provide greater labour fl