It’s that time of year.

This is always a busy time of year for RRM and this year has been no different for us.  Part of the problem is possibly of our own making, because, as a family-run business it is important to us that we make time to get together as a family, and so we close for Christmas. All the more important this year because we then got to spend time on holiday together at Combe Martin in Devon – which was just lovely.

But now we're back into work and ready for the busyness that comes this time of year. Benchmarking updates, GPG and Equal Pay and budget calculations all usually form a significant part of our workload at this time. This year however, we have also already been contacted by a number of clients and (hopefully) new clients to discuss pay structures reviews.  Some want us to do the review ready for implementation in April, and others want to start the work in April. As a consultant in another organisation put it – “it’s like everyone gets their Easter Bonnet out about now, dusts it off and decides, yep its good to go – or nope, we need a new one”.   Either way, and whatever your preferred analogy is, this means that the forthcoming year is already on target for growth.

With that in mind, we have taken on Brandon Gibbs-Gaylard (say hello please Brandon) as a permanent employee and he is our Reward Assistant – he was one of our kickstart employees. Our experience of the scheme has been nothing but positive and we were delighted with the quality of candidates we got. Brandon is staying with us though and you should watch this space for blogs, updates and anything else we can press-gang him into doing. As he gets embedded in his role we will be introducing him to our clients.

We have also taken on Karen Scott (say hello please Karen), who is supporting me with social media and other business administration. She has been with us a couple of months as well and its been wonderful having someone else to talk through social media with. Welcome aboard.

That’s the changes so far – but if it carries on like this, we will have more to add before the year end.

Welcome to 2022 everyone, hope your year is productive and positive (not in a Covid way!)