If you’ve had to return to the office lately, you may have enjoyed the face-to-face interaction with work colleagues and the chance to leave the house after a couple of years of working from home. Those little things we took for granted before the pandemic.
But one thing you probably haven’t missed is the commute. Whether you walk, cycle, drive, or take public transport – here’s how to have a happier commute.
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If you’ve business interests in Italy, or looking for an opportunity, you might want to get out there, be hands on and get to sample everything this beautiful country has to offer. But because this might not always be possible for busy business owners, and so you might need an alternative.
And there is a simple and inexpensive way to connect with Italy that needs nothing more than a landline or mobile telephone – so here’s how to quickly and easily set up a conference call between UK and Italy.
It’s been a tough few years for business owners. Brexit, the pandemic, and the energy and cost of living crisis have all taken their toll and seen the number of businesses in Britain drop by 6.6% – from 5.9 million in 2020 to 5.5 million now.
Even so, SMEs make up 99.9% of the UK business population. Let’s take a closer look at what an SME is and what funding options are available if you’re thinking of starting out on your own.
If you’re doing business, or thinking of doing business, in Israel then you’ll be all too aware of the trouble, dangers, and expense of regularly travelling to the country.
The ongoing unrest in means the security situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories changes regularly. It is always tense and unpredictable and the foreign office advises against travel to the borders with Palestine and Syria.
If you do have to travel out there, check out the government website for the latest foreign office advice on travelling to Israel.
If travel isn’t essential, you should consider keeping in touch with clients and colleague via conference call. Here’s how to set up an international conference call for up to 100 participants, in just a few simple steps.
If you need to re-route business calls to another department, you need to let customers know that their call is still live while they’re placed on hold. If you leave them in silence, they may think they’ve been cut off and simply hang up.
That’s where hold music comes in. But how can you find the perfect music for your business, and do you need a licence? Let’s take a look.
We’ve been banging the work from home drum for years now, but even we can see that it’s not for everyone – at least not full time. Since the pandemic kicked off, many workplaces have adopted a hybrid model where possible – that’s when employees work a couple of days at home and spend a couple in the office.
But if you’re having to work at home all the time, there’s a chance that you could be getting tired of being stuck in the same spare room and sick of staying at home all day. If this sounds like you, here’s how to beat work from home burnout.
Hong Kong is, for many, the gateway to China and the Far East and a region with rich historical links to the UK having been under British control between 1841 and 1997.
It’s also the world’s eighth largest trading economy, has been ranked as the world’s freest economy for the last 20 years, and one of Asia’s leading financial and business centres.
It’s also about 6,000 miles away so not somewhere you can easily commute to!
So if you’ve business associates, clients or work colleagues in Hong Kong, why not conduct your business via conference call? It’s cost effective, requires nothing more than a landline or mobile and can be set up in a few simple steps.
The UK is being hit with record temperatures. It looks like things could cool down over the coming days, but we’re still going to see soaring summer temperatures. But did you know that smartphones really don’t like the heat?
The option to work outdoors during the warmer months has to be the one of the greatest perks of working remotely, and if you’re planning to spend as much time out in the sun as you possibly can, you’ll need to take care of your smartphone – it’s not just during the winter months your mobile needs looking after, the summer months can also play havoc with your handset.
So, to help make sure neither yourself nor your smartphone suffer a meltdown this summer, here’s are four ways to help ensure your smartphone survives the summer…
Given the problems that business owners have had over the past few years, from the pandemic to the current cost of living crisis, there’s a good chance that many have used up some or all of their emergency fund or taken out credit to keep ticking over.
If you’ve ever tried to get a loan or credit card, you’ll be well aware the importance that your personal credit score plays – if you’re after the best deals, you have to work hard to get your score up to the required level. But what about your business credit score?