Moving On And Ending The Relationship

Often HR professionals and those in management roles are lumbered with dealing with property matters for the business. Below is the first of three articles to give you a better understanding of the issues surrounding surplus premises.

Moving on

Many companies are reviewing their staff requirements in the light of the Brexit referendum result and long term trends such as increasing automation in the workplace. Sometimes a reduction in employee numbers goes hand in hand with a reduction in the requirement for premises – and often hard-pressed HR teams find they are dealing with lease disposals as well as redundancy programmes.

The first thing to be aware of is that, much like an employment contract, some clauses are implied by law into the landlord and tenant relationship. It's important to read the lease and be aware of its terms, but the lease itself is not the whole story. In particular, the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 gives occupiers of business premises in