Make sure you maintain realistic staffing levels

Your reputation will be seriously affected if you make redundancies every few months or find you are short of staff and have to re-employ them almost immediately.

Your reputation will impact on your ability to attract good employees and customers in future.

If you have an uneven business flow, consider flexible working practices or temporary staff cover until you are sure the business can support additional staff again.

Former employees may well be interested in returning to work for you. Remember they retain employment rights if there is no clear break in service.

Effective People have worked with clients to identify optimum staff levels and to retain key staff.