b'Partner News Winter 2020 25EnterpriseProud to be a Marshall Apprentice. Image credit: Cambridge 938, taken by Alan Davidson in Cambridge. Shortlisted in the Professional Next Generation category of Make UKs Photography Competition 2018. Business resilience: Ensuring business continuity in the longer termThe world remains an uncertain place inresilience, especially whilst businesses these pandemic times. Its always beenare concentrating on rightsizing the important to ensure your business isworkforce. At the time of writing, the resilient; now its become crucial to beChancellors economic statement has justIts always been importantable to withstand shocks and pivot tobeen delivered and businesses are makingto ensure your business isa new normal. Manufacturers and otherdecisions about whether to take up the businesses have been through the reactnew version of the Job Retention Scheme,resilient; now its crucial to bestage of the crisis, undertaking immediategiven that there will be transparency aboutable to withstand shocks andcrisis actions to respond to the earlywho is claiming under the new scheme. pivot to a new normal.stages of the pandemic. Now manyImproving or introducing organisational businesses are concentrating on embeddingagility, with flexible staffing models and resilience into their business, and ensuringan ability for some to move roles, is under optimised operations based on a disruptedconsideration for many businesses. demand and supply pattern, to ensure business continuity in the longer term.Dont forget that new tax rules for off-payroll labour in the private sector People - protecting your workforcein the UK are proposed to begin on 6 Employee wellbeing, productivity andApril 2021 and will have a significant morale remains essential to businessimpact on manufacturers using large'