What will it cost you to employ the same person three years from now?
The government's own impact assessment on its zero-hours reforms puts the annual cost to employers as high as £2.9 billion.
That’s roughly £8 million a day, and about £1.2 billion of that is compensation for shifts cancelled or cut short.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation thinks the cost could be higher.
And the detail that actually decides your bill hasn't been settled yet: whether guaranteed hours start at 8 hours a week, 20, or 48.
National Insurance increases. Minimum wage increases. Holiday pay. Now guaranteed hours.
Every year a person costs a little more, and a system costs a little less.
That gap is now a decade wide. Very few business models have been redesigned since that gap opened...
By Gavin Gibbons
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