The Hiring Handbook

In food retail, “fully-loaded” is a term more frequently tossed around with an ambitious burger order than in the consideration of staff costs. When taking into account insurance, pensions and holiday pay, employers should add between 15 - 20% to the base hourly rate when calculating the actual hourly costs. A failure to consider the “fully loaded” cost of staff will, at best, render certain business KPIs such as staff cost / sales misleading and, at worst, sink your business.

Referral schemes are super successful. Everyone’s had a free cab off a friend from Uber, a free pizza from a mate via Deliveroo, or if you were lucky enough you’d have got some free money from PayPal when they started for getting a friend to use the service.