Jul 2, 2024 | Education, HR, Opinion piece, UK Rental Property
Property Management for Councils & Local Authorities HCR’s ‘hidden’ division Many of our clients are unaware that HCR has a specialist property management division. Over the last 4 years, HCR has been managing a local authority’s temporary accommodation and...
Jun 26, 2024 | HR, Latest News, Opinion piece
Balanced teams, equal opportunity. An opinion piece by Adrian Leach In my working career I witnessed first hand how firms will recruit new staff rather than promote from within and even pay them more than existing staff doing the same job. A strategy that I always...
Jun 17, 2024 | HR, Opinion piece
The new mantra – Working from Home Post the pandemic the perceived wisdom was that Working From Home was here to stay. We even had a new acronym for our calendars – WFH. Flexible working was THE management mantra adopted by CEOs. Large expensive group offices...
Aug 19, 2022 | Latest News, Opinion piece
UK Housing Market – Crash, Gentle Fall or No Change? The jury is still out on the impact the high rate of inflation and cost of living crisis will have on the UK housing market. Couple this with the increased Bank of England Base rate to 1.75% and you could be...
Dec 19, 2021 | International Relocation, Latest News, Opinion piece
Demand outstrips supply As Q1 2021 ended there was a surge of optimism that business could once again get moving and one of the beneficiaries of this travel increase was Serviced Accommodation. During 2020 some serviced accommodation operators ceased trading or...
Sep 24, 2021 | Opinion piece
Geert Hofstede (the late Dutch psychologist) observed that “Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster”. Against this background it appears that still too many assignees and their...
