Workplace Insight

APRIL 26, 2022

Kitchen and catering assistants, cleaners, and sales and retail assistants – some of the occupations with the largest number of workers in the UK – are among the occupations to be given a ‘probability of automation’ score of over 60 percent in the ONS report (ie 60 percent or more of those jobs are at risk from automation).

Bookkeeping 98

Bookkeeping Catering Technology Payroll 98

Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

According to Oberlo , a drop-shipping app created by Shopify, almost one-third of the world’s population is now shopping online, accounting for 18% of retail sales worldwide. You can’t handle the website, sales and marketing, customer service, bookkeeping and taxes, build partnerships, and grow the business by yourself. You need help.

Sales 115

Sales Delegation Problem-Solving Bookkeeping 115

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 4, 2015

I took a job four months ago as a bookkeeper for a small local retail store owned by a family friend. He reached out to me because his bookkeeper of 25 years needed to retire. I have not been taught or shown anything but the basics of bookkeeping, which I accomplished after 30 days.

Bookkeeping 34

Bookkeeping Salary Flexibility Flexibility 34

Work Life

MARCH 8, 2024

He’d also never run a true retail business. She’s the accountant, the bookkeeper, the driver, and more—but always a mom first. It was the how that he’d have to figure out. Straight Into the Fire There were a few hurdles. First, LeGrand had never had a cup of coffee.

Sales 105

Sales Insurance Food Bookkeeping 105

Ask a Manager

MAY 5, 2016

A reader writes: I work at a retail job with mostly hourly positions and low wages. So your coworker can tell you how much she makes, but getting the bookkeeper to tell you how much a coworker is making wouldn’t be protected by the law. * This is more or less my first “real job.”

Salary 27

Salary Bookkeeping Retail Government 27