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Published February 4, 2022

How are high energy price affecting business owners?

It’s impossible to avoid talking about energy prices right now – the 54% increase in the energy price cap has got households across the country on the brink of a cost of living crisis (if not already embroiled in one).

But it’s not just households that are feeling the squeeze, these are worrying times for business owners across the country – we’re still recovering from the pandemic, Brexit could be biting for decades, and now we’re facing ridiculously high business energy bills.

Here’s what some business owners have to say about the impending energy bills crisis.

News Small business

Published October 28, 2021

Is your job at risk from automation?

Automation is a divisive subject – while automated technology should help make our lives easier and more comfortable, there’s a very real threat it will lead to millions of jobs.

But what jobs are most likely to suffer at the hands of automation? And how safe is your job?

News Technology

Published August 23, 2021

Monday conference call round up

Companies of all sizes right across the world rely on a reliable conference call service to keep in touch with clients and colleagues. Most of the bigger companies also use a teleconference to relay news to shareholders and the wider business.

Here’s a round up of the most recent conference call news.

Conference calling News

Published August 16, 2021

Should work from home staff take a pay cut?

A government minister has floated the idea that civil servants who work from home should be paid less than those that work from the office.

So, should work from home staff take a pay cut?

Flexible working News Work from home

Published July 21, 2021

How to protect your data in 10 simple steps

Hackers are constantly evolving the way they operate, which means cyber attacks are getting more and more difficult to identify and prevent.

At the same time, more and more of us are accessing sensitive personal and financial information across a number of devices, often storing passwords and even banking details for greater convenience and quicker access.

The trouble is, the more devices we store data on, the greater the chances of being hacked. Data breaches are common and increasing, even on seemingly secure platforms. Here are 10 steps you can take to keep your data as secure as possible.

Cyber security News Technology

Published April 1, 2021

Would working from home make you quit your job?

For as long as any of us can remember, working from home was seen as a perk – a way to miss the grind of the daily commute and get a better work/life balance.

But since many of us have been forced to work from home exclusively during the pandemic, there seems to have been a growing number of people complaining that they’re fed up of working for home and long for a return to the office.

Even the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has weighed in and suggested workers might actually quit their jobs if they’re not allowed back to work. So, would you consider walking away from work if you were told that telecommuting was to become permanent?

Conference calling News Uncategorized Work from home

Published March 4, 2021

Is fake news more popular than real news?

We’re living in an age where half-truths matter more than people’s lives. From the NHS £350 million a week bonus being writ large on the side of a bus to the latest disinformation on Covid-19 vaccines, the truth appears to be an abject concept only there to be manipulated to fit your own narrative.

Bleak time indeed. Even more so when you consider that that individual fake news stories were more likely to be shared on Facebook than stories from mainstream news organisations.

Cyber security News Technology

technology

Published September 21, 2020

Are you wasting too much time online?

2020 has seen us all spending a lot more time indoors than in previous years – and with so much time at home, internet searches have surged by between 50% and 70%, while streaming has leaped by at least 12%, according to preliminary statistics from Omdia, the tech research arm of Informa Tech.

Things were bad enough before lockdown when, globally, we spent a combined 7.5 billion hours online every day. This totals 856,164 years spent browsing – that’s long enough to travel from Earth to Mars and back again.

1,426 times!

So, how exactly are we spending so much time connected to the internet? And are we wasting too much time online?

News Technology

online technology work/life balance

Published August 14, 2020

Is your job at risk from automation?

Technology is evolving faster than at any time in history, and if we’re not yet quite living in a sci-fi version of ‘the future’, we’re certainly staring at a new frontier that is being driven by automation, data intelligence and technological advancements.

And while progress should never be halted, we’re in serious danger of putting ourselves out of jobs – data driven intelligence is delivering digital transformation for all sectors and will eliminate various existing jobs between this decade and the next.

Many jobs humans do today which are slow and filled with errors, will be replaced by intelligent systems, whether in form of robots or computerised devices – will your job be one of them?

News Technology

business technology

Published August 6, 2020

Boost for local businesses

It seems people are pulling together to help local businesses out of lockdown, as two thirds of people say they’ll shop local to support small businesses.

Coronavirus News Small business Uncategorized

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