An employer gets a letter. The letter talks about a bunch of new rules they need to comply with. A letter which talks about a number of obligations and fines if they don’t comply. These rules also mean they need to make some fundamental changes within their business. The changes they need to make to […]
For most of the 1.8 million of small businesses yet to comply with auto enrolment regulation there is still time to wake up to the auto enrolment challenege and avoid the heavy fines and the additional potential damange their business might face by taking a number of simple steps. Our experience shows there are three […]
Throughout the development process of AE in a Box, and now as the system is now being actively used by a decent number of our hundreds of partner businesses, we did one thing more often than anything else…. We listened. We listened to what was going on in the marketplace, we listened to what SME […]
There’s a huge number of examples across a wide range of industries where technology has disrupted existing business models and ‘changed the game’. From how we communicate (Skype and social media), to how we buy products (Ebay and Amazon), to how we access information (Google and Wikipedia) previously dominant industries have changed fundamentally due to […]
Our recent conversations with accountants, financial planners and lawyers of all shapes and sizes, spread across our green and pleasant (and today sunny!) land paints an interesting picture of auto enrolment. Whilst professional knowledge of automatic enrolment is undoubtedly growing as more employers stage we’re finding that the professionals who have a greater understanding of […]
In most years the arrival of June reminds me of a number of things. I’ve always seen the start of June as the start of Summer (although I know that for many the definitions vary). However June the 1st officially commemorates a bunch of different things… The birth of singer Alanis Morissette, English Chess player […]
Since starting to work with employers a few year ago helping them with the challenges auto enrolment brings to a business we’ve been involved in a market which is in a constant state of flux. Firstly the employers who needed to comply have increasingly become smaller and smaller which means that both employers and the […]
Whilst previously the natural approach of the pensions regulator was to support and encourage employers to comply. In the early days of auto enrolment whilst working with many of the bigger businesses we’ve seen a few examples of the regulator working in partnership with employers to ensure they are compliant and have the systems and […]
Let’s start with a question…. “How do you explain 2 years of work, and our plans for the next few years in 20 minutes?” A strange question. Perhaps. But one I’ve been thinking about since leaving the offices of Money Marketing this morning. You see our auto enrolment service, AE in a Box, is shortlisted […]
About 18 months ago, on a rainy Sunday night, I was sitting at home feeling uneasy. I was trying to read but found myself constantly distracted by a thought which wouldn’t go away. The thought was about a particularly annoying challenge I faced within my business which I’d been struggling to get my head around […]