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It's been quite a while since my last post and for that I apologise, I realise this might seem a lame excuse but things here have been really hectic lately and the blog was one of the things that had to suffer.

Busyness has become a bit of a company wide phenomenon, and while you probably wouldn't have realised outside my absence it's reached the point where we've taking on a couple more people in our Operations Team. A long long time ago (the point at which I started in the company) when we were running composite companies rather than umbrella companies we left taking on staff too late and damaged our service, we learnt our lesson. So you'll be hearing some new voices in the very near future, and while they aren't new to this sort of thing they are new to Gabem and umbrella companies in general, so bare with them while they learn the ropes.

So what's been keeping me away from the blog? Well I haven't been manning the phones, I think the mere thought of that might send Trudy into a panic. To say I'm out of practice doesn't really go far enough.

There have been a lot of internal IT projects, some of which suddenly needed more attention and a lot planning for the future. There have been a number of recent legislation changes that any respectable umbrella company has to take a serious look at to ensure that they will be doing the right thing in future. One prime example is the pension auto enrolment that was recently announced.

As you are (hopefully) aware we've always had a pension scheme open to our umbrella company employees (I believe we were one of the first in the business to offer it), but the planned changes are substantial, and depending on how we plan now could turn out to be quite beneficial in the long run. It could be very interesting to see how this changes the umbrella company landscape over the next few years.

Have a great week, and hopefully speak to you soon.

Hugo
@GabemUmbrella
17/11/2010