Model Essays 9-1 Business

EVALUATE the reasons for appointing self-employed professionals at David Lloyd clubs. You should use the information provided as well as your knowledge of business (12 marks

On the one hand, appointing self-employed professionals like personal trainers (P.Ts) at David Lloyds clubs is a good idea is because it gives the business flexibility. For example not only will P.T s work on demand, as needed by David Lloyd s, which means it can adjust staffing levels to meet business needs [(which seems to me to be a very important consideration for hiring self-employed professionals because external factors like increase in disposable incomes or success of budget gyms may mean fluctuations in demand and therefore a need to modify staffing levels)] but the business can also hand pick work-ready talent thereby saving money on training costs as it won t be required thus making them making them cheaper than employees

On the other hand, self-employed professionals may not be a good idea for David Lloyds because of the possibility of client theft personal trainers may take clients with them when they leave the business by offering cheaper programmes or training privately, which would reduce David Lloyd s revenue.

Overall, I believe the reasons for David Lloyds are sound and outweigh the reasons against [A] because it s more cost efficient to hire freelancers especially for irregular or infrequent classes [J]. However, the extent to which this is successful depends on whether or not David Lloyds is able to protect its own interests I suggest it draws up a contract preventing self-employed employees from approaching its clients directly to reduce this risk [I]. The most important reason for employing self employed professionals is because it meets the needs of David Lloyds much better than employees [M].