Recent figures have been released to show that over 1.9 million jobs could have been created by the end of 2014 thanks to new small – medium sized businesses. This increase is largely due to the number of new businesses starting up and previous self employed people working from home looking to take on their first member or members of staff. With recent government programs to help people start up their own company, there has been a large increase in this happening. Potentially, this could add up to £27 billion pounds for the United Kingdom’s economy. Research has shown that a new employee working in a small to medium sized business will on average, be expect to work about 28-30 per week, where as an employee taken on by a start up business working from home would be more likely to work about 20-21 hours per week. I think this is a fantastic change and should be welcomed by all.