Being in the online and small business world both as a lawyer and a small business owner, I often hear from business owners who wish to collaborate with someone else, but don’t necessarily want to merge their businesses. For example, they might want to hold a joint workshop or retreat, co-host a podcast, write a book together, create a product collaboratively, run an online course together or create a mastermind or masterclass in partnership.

Speaking can be a great way to boost your personal brand, reach a new audience and if you’re new to it, improve your confidence in front of a crowd. As I increase my speaking engagements and talk to other business owners who speak at various events, it is apparent that the need for an event speaker contract has been growing in importance.

Working from home has become increasingly popular since the pandemic began with the versatility of being able to remotely have kept businesses afloat and employees in their jobs. In many ways, flexible working arrangements have been one of the great business lifeboats over the past 18 months.

But with this change comes risk. Because this way of working on a large scale is still new to us, there are many risks that people have yet to think of, especially when the arrangements are made in reaction to a snap government lockdown. A work-from-home agreement will help to cover the following risks.