As a startup founder, it can be difficult to nail the way you look after the People side of your business — especially at the beginning, when you’re only setting the foundations to then go and grow your team.

With Charlie’s HR Advice, Ben got access to a personal HR advisor to help him set up all of the policies and frameworks they required to be compliant:

All the time Ben saved thanks to HR Advice was time he invested in making Fiit a great place to work. It was like having an extra member of the team — someone he could trust, and with a breadth of HR experience:

“Being able to take something from a partner that you can trust, and knowing that it’s going to be correct and you’re going to follow the right processes, that’s really important.”

Too small to have an HR team? Get expert HR advice, whenever you need it

If you don’t have an HR background and your business is too small to have an HR team — that’s when you run the risk of making the wrong decisions.

Being able to rely on Charlie’s HR advisors gave Ben the peace of mind of always knowing what to do — both from a human and a legal point of view:

“When we found ourselves in difficult situations, we were able to reach out to the HR Advice team to understand what we needed to do to treat people fairly, and also to be compliant with rules and regulations. We felt reassured we were doing the right thing, the right way.”

Because of their size, Fiit is not planning on having a large HR team anytime soon. Ben explains:

Finding the right partners to bring your business to the next level

When choosing who to help him scale their business, Ben wanted someone who knew their challenges, who could keep their pace — someone who understood where he was coming from and where he was going:

The team at Fiit are constantly focused on improving their product, on having a positive impact on their customers. In a similar way, Charlie is pushing the boundaries of what making work better for small companies means: