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Automatic Enrolment and how it affects small businesses

03 Jun 2016

If you employ someone and do not currently offer a pension scheme auto enrolment will affect you.  Act now. Under a law introduced in 2012 (part of the 2008 Pensions Act) all employers must eventually offer a workplace pension scheme and automatically enrol...

ICG survey into the issue of ‘fraudulent’ respondents

02 Jun 2016

In March 2016, the e-group experienced what seemed like an avalanche of posts (112 in the eight days March 17-24) about respondents who misrepresent their eligibility to take part in qualitative research.  A poll of members who work in qualitative research...

How the polls performed in May 2015 – the post mortem!

02 Jun 2016

Lucy Davison of Keen as Mustard Marketing presents a summary of the recent BIG polling event… On 19 May we gathered at the office of Research Now to pick over the entrails of the 2015 UK polling debacle.  With Kerian Pedley (pollster, writer, Research...

Why small businesses should blog

25 May 2016

For small businesses, taking time to regularly blog can seem like a significant investment and responsibility without a guarantee of return.  So why do it? Whenever we write a proposal or approach a new client, we do not know whether that contact will result in...

Reviewing Market Research Summit – May 2016

11 May 2016

"How must those responsible for driving insight innovate in order to be relevant, both to the modern lives of consumers and the changing structures of the business organisations we serve?" This is the fourth year of the Market Research Summit.  Set up...

Recruiters’ accreditation – an update

05 May 2016

I came late to the discussion a few weeks ago about fraud in recruitment but it seems that some collective solutions emerged – practical things like checking resondents' ID.  While not strictly the same subject, I thought that this might be an...
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