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Well, by Monday you should be seeing a number of new things on the site. The first and most significant change is that to the umbrella company page, it's a complete re-write that we've been working on for quite a while, it's a much clearer page that I think explains what we do much better than the existing one.

In conjunction with that we have the addition of a new page to the site, and that's our No Hidden Costs page. This is part of an effort to make everything we do as clear as possible, so you know right at the beginning what it will cost you. On the page are all of the costs, if it's not on there you won't be charged for it, it's as plain as that. I think we're the first to do this, but I hope that this is something that other companies adopt because choosing an umbrella company or self employed service is only made more difficult by not having all the relevant facts.

Next we have the pages about the history of umbrella companies, single person companies and composite companies. They are there to explain how umbrella companies have become the dominant payroll structure in the industry. Writing them was a nice stroll down memory lane as in a way they are Gabem's history and many of the people here were with the company through all of them.

Last but not least you have an early Legal Bits, and this time not from Susan but from Wole our resident lawyer talking about an umbrella company contractor's position when it comes to signing contracts. I am assured that Susan will be back next month, so her fan club need not fear.

You'll see that over the next two weeks we'll have other people manning the blog (as I am off on holiday) and hopefully keeping you up to date with any news or relevant information. I'll name two of the people writing here and now so they can't get out of it, the first is Justin from invoicing, who I imagine quite a few of you would have spoken to over the years, and Karen the Credit Control Manager who is taking a step into the internet spotlight for maybe the first time. Go easy on them, and feel free to send in your feedback to the usual email address as I am sure they'll appreciate it.

Speak to you in a couple of weeks, and look after yourselves. In the extremely unlikely chance that any of you are going to PAX in Seattle, see you there.

Hugo
28/08/2009