Anyone in business faces a myriad of impacts that can affect whether it all works or simply doesn't.
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Making it work covers everything from the uniqueness of the product or service that's being provided to the skills of the staff and management, to the impact of competition.
It's never easy, nor would anyone expect it to be.
But if is also accepted that the most crucial aspect of making a business successful is the team taken on the journey.
By that it means recruiting the right people, ensuring they have access to ongoing training, making sure any issues that arise can be sorted to everyone's advantage and creating an environment in which they are just as determined to play an integral role in continued growth and success.
Too often though that is not the case. A series of recommendations released on Thursday by the Migrant Workers' Taskforce address that very point.
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Its investigations focused on the widely reported issue of recent times within various industries, including horticulture and cleaning, of systematically underpaying migrant staff.
To remedy this, those bosses who take this path could face jail for such wage fraud.
The Black Dog Institute ambassador knows, as someone who has bipolar type 2, the difficulties faced by many in being open in the workplace about the challenges they face.
It took Mr Skinner until his mid-20s to overcome that feeling, though no doubt for some that happens much later, or even not at all.
As he says: " … You get paranoid about what you think is going to happen, that if you tell your bosses you'll get the sack or that you're not going to get that promotion."
It truly is incumbent on all employers to do what they can to help their staff however they can to make the workplace a more comfortable place to be.
Surely this will make for happier and in so doing, more productive times.
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