As we continue to expand, we are recruiting again at Roar Software. Sifting through the applications it becomes glaringly obvious that we are lacking something – female candidates. “Why are there no women?” I can be heard asking the room in general. I am met with a puzzled silence. None of us is sure. I’ll…
Well April and May have been busy months for Roar Software, not least because our illustrious leader, Paul, was away in Rwanda for almost 2 weeks working on a software development and integration project for a live event. You can read more about that here. Even though Paul was over 4,000 miles away, the time…
It is a competitive market out there and to stay ahead of the game, many companies need to radically change the way they work and make better use of technology. Digital transformation may seem like a huge undertaking but it doesn’t have to be. Nor does it have to require a huge financial investment. What…
With stress and mental health issues accounting for a high proportion of absenteeism, many companies and HR departments are putting strategies in to place to support their employees in an effort to reduce workplace stress, and there seem to be a lot of in-house lunchtime yoga classes springing up. Arecent survey by Perkbox found that…
The Situation It is a familiar story. Before you start up your company, you spend time planning and mapping out how you would like the business to progress, what systems you are going to put in place, how you will cope with increased orders. As the business grows, you find yourself becoming increasingly busy and…
IR35 – Off-payroll working through an intermediary With January and the self-assessment tax deadline rapidly approaching, this seems a good time to look at the off-payroll working rules – often known as IR35. There have been a lot of articles about IR35 recently and it’s impact on individual contractors, particularly within the public sector. This…
Builders, programmers, and the costs of rewriting software systems. I love a good builder analogy when it comes to software development. Often when talking to business stakeholders it is useful to use terms that they are familiar with and concepts they can easily grasp and are analogous to those we use in developing software. As…