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Welcome to this new world!

11th October 2010

Welcome to this new world!

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Here I am in my late 40’s trying to get my head around the world of blogging. I run an employment law consultancy with my mate Julie. Our business, EmployEase: The Employment Practice Ltd, is 16 years old. Over that time we have gone from writing letters, making phone calls and the occasional fax, to computers, emails, mobiles that aren’t the size of bricks, and now tweets and blogs.

Its fantastic that we can all communicate so quickly, but I have to say sometimes I miss the quiet time to think.

So, what will this blog be about? Updates about UK employment law and the lives of two women running a business together from two different ends of the country….

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