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Newbury Weekly News Thursday, September9,2021 27 LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT LEGALE ADVICE THE INTERVIEW TO YOUR AVERAGE NETWORKING GROUP? JulieTe aylor Dom Robinson Friendly Gardnd er Leader,page28 Restaurant Renaissant,page29 Supportive Not-for-profit NEWBURY BUSINESS GROUP Join us at Donnington Grove every Friday Newbury Business [email protected] at the heart of your community Today Date: 9.9.2021 Distributed with the Newbury Weekly News MFG bought by Air IT Sponsored by Sulhamstead firm joins group hoping to be best managed service provider in UK SULHAMSTEAD-BASED IT Air IT has added MFG and IN- firmMFG UK has been bought FINITY to its portfolio as part of by managed service provider ambitious plans to further expand Air IT. across the UK and become the MSP MFG was launched in 2008 and of choice for SMEs nationally. provides managed IT, cyber se- As aresult of these acquisitions, curity and communications solu- Air IT has increased its headcount tions. to 270 staff–morethan 200 of It has won several awards –in- whom performdirect service-re- cluding a NewburyWeeklyNews lated roles –and boosted its ex- Best in Business award –and is a isting presence both in the South partner of Microsoft, Dell and Dat- East and the Midlands. to. Air IT chief executive John Air IT was impressed with its Whitty said: “We are thrilled to organic year-on-year growth and have found two more outstanding excellent reputation with its cli- teams to join the Air IT Group, ents, demonstrated by their cus- which has allowed us to further ex- tomer loyalty. pand our footprint and introduce MFG managing director Mark skilful, like-minded colleagues to Flinders said: “At MFG, we have the team. admired Air IT and followed their “Both MFG and INFINITY are journey with close interest over very similar to us in terms of their the years. service maturity, product set, cli- “As acompany, they have great ent type and, most importantly, people and values which in turn culture –weare confident that delivers agreat service, currently they will be agreat fit for Air IT ranked in the top three MSPs in andlook forward to the contribu- the UK. tion we know they will add. “Joining with the Air IT Group “Our aim is to be the go-to MSP helps us in several ways. andMSSP for SMEs across the UK, “Our management team can grow further, our people will have delivering alocal service on ana- more support and opportunities to tional scale and welcoming excep- extend their skills and experience, tional talent to the group will help and our clients will benefit from us achieve this.” the ever-growing services and Providing legal expertise for technologies that formpartofthe “ MFG are very similar to us every aspect of your business and new digital way of working. MFG managing director Mark Flinders in terms of their service “The team are excited to be part personal life for over 100 years. of the Air IT Group and looking and Uttoxeter-based INFINITY IT managed service provider has ac- maturity, product set, forward to working closely with Solutions Limited on September quired two businesses simultane- the other regions to make the 2, for undisclosed sums. Backed by ously –the first pair last October, client type and, most group the best in the UK.” August Equity since January 2020, the second in December and the importantly, culture Business and Company Services Air IT bought both MFG UK this marks the fourth time the IT third in March. 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WBTC will celebrate its students completing their ap- FLEXIBLE working policies and procedures giving employees achance to easy to get carried away prenticeships in avariety of arrangements include part- Flexible/hybrid working move back to the workplace as with the possibilities of areas, including accountan- time working, flexitime policies are recommended to and when requested, as well flexible and hybrid working cy, business administration, and job-sharing, writes Julie accommodate both statutory as areviewperiod in which arrangements. It is important customer service, teaching, Taylor from Gardner Leader. requirements and other changes can be reverted if not for employers to consider the plumbing, IT, engineering An increasingly popular arrangements specific to the working as well as planned. full practicalities. and many more. WBTC managing director flexible working trend is that business. Effective policies Changing terms and It is therefore, worth bearing Matt Garvey said: “I would of ‘hybrid’ working, which and procedures can help to conditions in mind the following: like to congratulate our ap- affords an employee the right ensure requests are dealt with Where flexible working n Suitable roles and type of to workbothinthe workplace in acoherentand uniform prenticeship graduates and requests are agreed, this workthat could be performed recognise the resilience they and at aremote location, such manner. The requests can be may constitute achange in outside of the workplace, as their home. Employees refused, but for limited and have shown over adifficult 18 Julie Taylor an employee’s employment including confidentiality months. have aright to request legitimate business reasons, contract. Therefore, an considerations flexible working, and requests provide further information such as customer demand or “This makes their achieve- employer will need to ensure n Performance management, ments even more special. are becoming increasingly to help their case ability to re-distribute the that the terms of the contract common as we move to the work. Any flexible working learning anddevelopment of “I would also like to thank n The employee is invited are varied accordingly. staff our sponsors of the event, ‘new normal’ post-pandemic. to ameeting to consider the policy will need to include the statutory scheme at least, but Discrimination n Cybersecurity, especially who have made this all pos- Flexible working requests request (and be accompanied considerations sible.” by acolleague if requested) can also include provisions with regard to confidentiality, Eligible employees (those for those who fall outside of Arefusal to allow flexible or tech infrastructure and data Sponsors include Bench- with 26 weeks continuous n The request is considered the formal right to request. hybrid working could amount sharing mark, Celeros, James Cowp- service) have astatutory right on an individual basis er Kreston, Bayer, Newbury Employers can also consider to indirect discrimination in n Thelong-termimplications; to request flexible working n That the final decision is certain circumstances. For News Ltd, EJBC Chartered once every 12 months. implementing aspecific employees may be difficult to Accountants, HR Dept, Dove- communicated clearly and hybrid working policy, example, the requirement for persuade back to aworkplace Requests must be dealt with without undue delay and in adisabled person to be in the tail Group and Apple Print reasonably and within three covering hybrid working on a environment, therefore any and Creative. writing. discretionary basis, without workplace may disadvantage decisions need to be made months from the date it was them. Additionally, employers The WBTC graduation made. Employers who receive Employers should also be the need for aformal request carefully and in line with the ceremony takes place on aware that requests to work to be made. This simpler need to ensure part-time business’s ambitions. arequest should ensure: workers are not treated less Wednesday, October 6, at Ar- flexibly –especially from approach could limit the n Including atimescale for lington Arts Centre in New- n It is acknowledged in home –can be made on an amount of statutory flexible favourably than full-time ones writing with comparable roles. regular reviews, making bury. informal basis. It is important working requests made. it clear the reasons why For free advice about of- n All relevant eligibility that employers also treat It may also be worth Practicalities of flexible changes may be requested if fering apprenticeships email criteria are considered these requests reasonably. including areciprocal ‘opt and hybrid working the new working patternis [email protected] or call n The employee is invited to Flexible/hybrid working out’ clause for arrangements, For an employee, it is unsuccessful. (01635) 35975. Outstanding workers nominated for Newbury BID prize giveaway NEWBURY Business Im- dressing, Leanne has been ex- provement District (BID) cellent at managing the salon has given away 30 tickets –hardly needing to lean on me to this weekend’s Newbury at all. Real Ale Festival to deserv- “She has taken away the ing local workers. burden of sorting out many Last month, the BID reached things from me and managed out to firms in Newbury town to keep the salon running centre, asking them to nomi- well under very difficult cir- nate outstanding members of cumstances.