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The Complete Guide To Work and Coronavirus
28/05/2020The UK is now months into lockdown, in order to prevent the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). We currently don’t know how long the lockdown will last, or what measures will be implemented, but there are already so many changes we are seeing in our…

Working from Home
15/05/2020In this week's article, Caroline shares her thoughts on Working From Home....
This week marks my 8th week of working from home, and I feel now that his has become my norm. I can barely remember the pain of my commute to Manchester or how it feels …

Recruiting during the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdown
01/05/2020For this week's article, Caroline has been thinking about how she's been approaching sales calls and business development during the current pandemic.
Here's her views, and she would love to hear what other people think too.
Recruiting During Lock…

What does furlough mean?
23/04/2020Blog number 2 from our Regional Director Caroline Oberman discusses fuloughing. What does furlough mean, and just what is the Coronavirus Furlough Scheme?
What is Furlough?It’s hard to believe that only a few months ago I had never even heard of th…

Construction Recruitment During COVID-19 – Should I Still Be Recruiting People for Site?
15/04/2020Our Regional Director, Caroline Oberman, is writing a series of blogs about life in the Construction industry during the coronavirus pandemic and how it's impacting on construction sites and construction workers in the UK.
Here she shares her thoug…

Getting your workplace ready for Covid-19
13/03/2020The World Health Organisation (WHO) has set out guidance on how businesses and employers can help to stop the spread of the new Coronavirus disease.
How does Coronavirus spread?
When someone who has COVID-19 coughs or exhales they release droplets…

Sheffield Half Marathon Linear Team Challenge
29/01/2020Team Linear is limbering up ready to take on the Sheffield Half Marathon as part of a Team Challenge - with prizes and trophies in the offing!
We have a team of 16 ready to race around the streets of Sheffield on March 29th, with the aim of raising…

Star of the Quarter - December 2019
18/12/2019A HUGE congratulations to Linear's Emily Stapley who is the winner of Star of the Quarter for Quarter 4!Emily has been brilliant since she started in our Manchester office earlier in the year. She recently managed the Trades & Labour division in t…
New Client On Site Office Opening
03/12/2019Our brand new office based at one of our biggest Client's sites has just opened!Linear's Neringa Skare will be working from our Client's site, working with up to 100 of our candidates, with help from our Industrial Branch Manager Monika and Acco…

IR35 is changing.....
04/11/2019What is IR35?IR35 legislation was introduced by HMRC in 2000 with the purpose of collecting employment tax from those working through an intermediary (e.g. a personal service company or a worker’s own limited company). HMRC was concerned about “disg…

Candidate Referral Scheme - earn up to £500!
15/10/2019Did you know that we pay up to £500 for successful Candidate Referrals?
We've had an influx of exciting permanent roles that we are working on, and would love to be able to pay you for a successful referral!
Simply refer a friend, colleague or acq…

World's Biggest Coffee Morning
01/10/2019On Friday 27th September some of Linear's offices took part in Macmillan Cancer's World's Biggest Coffee Morning.Some of the bakes looked delicious as you can see.
Watch out Mary Berry!
We even decided to have our own Bake Off challenge - …