

The award-winning GI Outsourcing has over 21 years of experience in its field, supporting several hundreds of clients both in the UK and Ireland and internationally and helping improve their profitability. They may need physical support in terms of an actual body working as part of their team, or ever-increasingly with hi-tech cloud-based accounting systems, the hands-on expertise and knowledge gained by an outsourcer dealing with multiple applications and numerous clients. But for accountants, the skills are more specialised. They can of course, for many positions and employment agencies play a part here. “If I can’t find someone to do it, can I outsource the work in some way?” They are firms with fewer than 250 employees but account for around 99.9 per cent of businesses.Īs these firms grow, they provide a rich seam of business for accountancy firms to mine.īut those businesses that thrived during lockdown are facing new problems with labour and skills shortages. This is driven by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which are the backbone of the UK economy. Well, the giant is stirring, as the latest figures on the economy show growth up 0.4 per cent in August, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). He recently told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “What we are seeing with the UK economy, and the global economy, is very largely – in the supply chains – the stresses and strains that you’d expect from a giant waking up, and that’s what’s happening.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the UK economy in this way.
#AWAKEN A SLEEPING GIANT FULL#
He planned the attack and reportedly said: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”Īnother definition means it’s something powerful, but has not yet shown the full extent of its might. The phrase was used in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! about the attack on Pearl Harbour in the Second World War and attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. There is more than one definition of a ‘sleeping giant,’ depending on where you look.
