Businesses in several countries across Europe have been taking part in a four-day working week trial. The results are now in – but was it a success?
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Hybrid working could save your business as much as £8,100 a year, according to new research from IWG, the world’s largest flexible workspace company.
Sound too good to be true? Read on to see if your business could save.
More than half of female office workers believe hybrid working has benefitted their career progression, according to the results of a new study.
But what is hybrid working? And are you getting the benefits?
The school summer holidays are almost here, and if you thought working from home was tough while the kids were at school, wait until they’re off and need entertaining for weeks on end – the constant need for attention, coupled with the hot, sunny weather could make getting any work done all but impossible.
It always pays to plan in advance though, so here are six top tips to make sure the summer holidays aren’t a complete wash-out, at least as far as your work is concerned…
The ‘courier scam’ is a global issue that intensified late last year and presented another worrying trend in the new world of digital payments and card scams. Courier scams have…
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?
At the turn of the century, the very idea of a smartphone would have seemed like science fiction – although we had basic camera phones and video calling by then, not many of us really expected that the tech would explode so rapidly that we’d all be carrying small, powerful computers around with us every day.
And no one would have predicted how much we’d come to rely on them. We use our smartphones for pretty much everything now – banking, taking photos, monitoring fitness levels, keeping up with the news, posting to social media, and – sometimes – making phone calls.
But do our smartphones know too much personal information? And are we doing enough to protect all that sensitive data?
Lockdown has meant that more of us now work from home. This means more of us are potentially blurring the boundaries between home life and work life. And with little else left to do but sit inside for most of the day, many of us are massively upping our screen time if only to give ourselves something – anything – to do.
So, if you’re smitten by your smartphone, tethered to your laptop and pretty much constantly connected, here’s how to have a digital detox.
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.
Cyber crime is on the rise – recently released figures from both the police and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed the extent of the problem faced not just by the authorities, but anyone with an online presence.