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With large parts of the UK starting to resemble Christmas card scenes, I was just wondering how the adverse weather is affecting everybody else's businesses?
In my current line of work, I split my time mostly between IT consultancy and freelance technical writing. Certainly for the writing side of things, there's very little impact - other than me having a slightly more attractive scene to look at through my window as I work. The consultancy side though, I'm not yet sure how the weather is going to affect things for me. I'm onsite with a client today, as the roads were passable and the client's office is only local - however I do have meetings lined up with some potential new clients and it remains to be seen how I will manage to get to these if the weather persists.
I do have a very small sideline in the form of an ecommerce website, and obviously expect the weather to wreak havoc with deliveries etc. however fortunately this area of the business is very small and very niche, so the actual impact on me and on cashflow is unlikely to be noticeable. I know from my former life in the purchasing department of a large IT e-tailer, however, that weather like this can easily bring even a large business to it's knee's!
Hope everybody 'weather's the storm' so to speak, and interested in hearing about any contingencies you have in place to mitigate the effects of the weather on your businesses.
Cheers,
In my current line of work, I split my time mostly between IT consultancy and freelance technical writing. Certainly for the writing side of things, there's very little impact - other than me having a slightly more attractive scene to look at through my window as I work. The consultancy side though, I'm not yet sure how the weather is going to affect things for me. I'm onsite with a client today, as the roads were passable and the client's office is only local - however I do have meetings lined up with some potential new clients and it remains to be seen how I will manage to get to these if the weather persists.
I do have a very small sideline in the form of an ecommerce website, and obviously expect the weather to wreak havoc with deliveries etc. however fortunately this area of the business is very small and very niche, so the actual impact on me and on cashflow is unlikely to be noticeable. I know from my former life in the purchasing department of a large IT e-tailer, however, that weather like this can easily bring even a large business to it's knee's!
Hope everybody 'weather's the storm' so to speak, and interested in hearing about any contingencies you have in place to mitigate the effects of the weather on your businesses.
Cheers,
