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• The changing face of work
• A guide to economic and workplace developments from 1700 to the present day, with one eye on the future, by Workology.
• See more in: history, economics, working, employment, employees, industrial revolution, timeline, labour, internet, unemployment, working hours

• Work from home: stuffing envelopes scams
• We've all seen it: dubious offers of hundreds of pounds a week for working from home stuffing envelopes. BusinessWings investigates a widespread scam.
• See more in: work from home, work, home, working, scams, scam, OFT, envelopes, guides

• Work for texperts, kill the pub quiz
• Working from home needn’t necessarily involve stuffing envelopes, telesales or telemarketing.
• See more in: work from home, telesales, telemarketing, texperts, AQA, David Platt

• Everything in moderation – even stress
• Rather like oxygen, stress is something that continually damages us yet has been absolutely essential in the survival of our species.
• See more in: stress, work, science, biology

• The new breed of mumpreneur
• How the skills of motherhood could help equip you to run your own small business working from home.
• See more in: work from home, working from home, work, home, women in business, businesswomen, motherhood, mother, mums, children, maternity leave, mumpreneur, guides

• Home workers at risk without business insurance
• Home businesses are taking unnecessary risks due to the misconception that home-contents policies will cover them.
• See more in: insurance, home working, work from home, working from home, home workers, news, law, legal, legal fees, online, internet

• History of business – regulation in the Middle Ages
• Bureaucracy is a major bugbear of small-business owners, but even hundreds of years ago there were plenty of hoops for the small businessman to jump through.
• See more in: Middle Ages, bureaucracy, red tape, regulations, merchant guilds, craft guilds

• Four in 10 prefer being flexible to flush
• Flexibility is almost as important to workers than money, according to a small-business survey.
• See more in: flexible working, working hours, employees, employment, recruitment, perks, news, pay, salaries, wages

• When the tail wags the dog
• Employers have to accomodate an ever greater set of employee demands, either due to legislation or through fear of missing out on the best staff.
• See more in: flexible working, flexi-time, EU, working hours, Working Time Directive, work-life balance, employees, staff, HR, guides

• Practising what you preach
• A salesperson should truly believe in the product they sell. Mobile working technology specialists Interchange Group clearly do.
• See more in: communications, telecommunications, virtual office, remote working, work from home, mobile working, IT, guides

• The seven happiness secrets
• How to stay sanguine no matter how bad things get - very apt in these tough times.
• See more in: happiness, guides, tips

• Buy a franchise: eco-friendly cleaning products/service
• Founder Julie Bishop tells BusinessWings about her business's ethos and how it makes it unique in its field.
• See more in: franchises, franchisors, interviews, cleaning, environment, environmentally friendly, ethical, buy a franchise, retail, services, green, eco-friendly

• Is it in writing?
• A guide to licence agreements for intellectual property and the implications of not having them in writing. By intellectual property specialist Sara Ludlam, a solicitor at Keeble Hawson.
• See more in: legal, intellectual property, IP, licences, contracts, implied licences, verbal contracts, guides

• The modern business owner
• Shifting perceptions of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurialism mean people should find it easier to draw inspiration from business.
• See more in: entrepreneur, entrepreneurialism, Richard Branson, Alan Sugar, report, LSE, 1980s, ethical consumerism

• The history of business – a nation of shopkeepers
• Where did the expression come from and are we really still a nation of shopkeepers?
• See more in: shopkeeper, shopkeepers, England, Britain, UK, Napoleon, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

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