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Mental health problems are more common than you may think – figures from Mind, the mental health charity show that 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.
The effects of the coronavirus lockdown might even make this figure higher – being stuck between the same four walls can have a negative impact on mental health at the best of times, feelings that will be exacerbated by the pandemic ad talk of death and illness, not to mention insecurity over jobs and personal and business finance.
May 9 to 15 is Mental Health Awareness Week, a campaign designed to help encourage people to talk about mental health and address and issues head on. This year’s campaign will focus on the problem of loneliness.
Croatia’s traditional trading partners are Italy, Germany and Austria, but there are plenty of opportunities for UK businesses – big companies like British Airways, GlaxoSmithKline, WYG and Vodafone all operate in Croatia.
If you’re looking export to Croatia, or even set up there, it makes sense to keep in touch via an international conference call rather than try to fly out there.
Here’s how to set up a conference call to Croatia in just a few simple steps.
It looks like we’re headed for a heatwave next week, with temperatures in London set to hit 24°C – not ideal for life in an office. If you have to endure a suffocating commute, or your packed into a crowded office for the best part of the day, then you’ll be well within your rights to complain that it’s just too hot – especially if you’re forced to wear a suit for work.
So, as an employer, is it time you implemented a summer dress code, to lighten the mood and help keep things cool as the temperature rises? And should non-customer facing staff be able to wear what they like to work in, as they can when they work from home?
If you work from home, do you know whether your WiFi network is secure? If it isn’t, hackers could use it to access your device and steal sensitive data.
Here are five simple tips to secure the WiFi security in your home network.
Office workers are cutting their commute by an average of 2.5 days a week as part of an effort to lower their carbon footprint, shows new research from IWG, the flexible workspace solution experts. Just another reason why it’s good to work from home.
The UK is Canada’s second biggest world trading partner – after the US – but quite where this relationship is headed after Brexit is uncertain. The European Union (EU) and Canada recently signed an that would benefit UK businesses and the economy by as much as £1.3 billion a year, but the UK won’t be benefiting from that should it leave the EU.
Even so, the latest estimates suggest that UK exports to Canada may increase by 29% (£2.3 billion) while Canadian exports to the UK could increase by 15%, so it’s not all bad.
And if you are doing business out there, or considering it, you’ll need a cost-effective and reliable conference call provider. Especially now that current Covid-19 restrictions mean that travel is not permitted between the UK and Canada.
Here’s how to conference call Canada in just a few simple steps…
As coronavirus restrictions are eased, so life begins to get back to something approaching normal. Although infection rates are still high, things look to be back to the way they were before the pandemic, if the lack of masks in supermarkets and on public transport are anything to go by.
And the easing of restrictions means we’re once again being called back to our offices and workplaces. Although many have adopted the hybrid working model, this still means there’ll be an element of commuting.
It also means that business travel is back on the table. Often cross-region, sometimes cross-country, and even cross-continent, business travel is usually paid for by the business. But should you get something back for the time this travelling takes, especially if takes considerably longer than your trips to and from the office?
The UK has been the fifth largest investor in Bulgaria over the last decade, and this has seen bilateral trade between the two countries treble.
There are a number of UK companies successfully operating in Bulgaria to take advantage of its position at the crossroads of Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, Russia and he former Soviet republics.
Although there are plenty of daily, direct flights between the two countries, there are times when you’ll just want to touch base with colleagues or clients without having to make the trip out there.
And the easiest, most cost-effective way of doing this is to set up a teleconference or conference call – all you need is a landline or mobile phone.
Since the start of the pandemic, working from home has become the norm for hundreds of thousands of employees across the UK. W
Figures from Statista, the market and consumer data specialists, highlight how 38% of workers aged between 30 and 49 are doing some work from home as of February 2022. Age appears to affect remote working opportunities, as just 23% of younger workers aged between 16 and 29 report that they are working from home. 21% said they are unable to do so.
When working from home, a conference call is the only way to stay in the loop where meetings are concerned. And although our service is easy to use, there are certain rules you need to abide by when on a teleconference.
To make sure you don’t make a show of yourself on a call with up to 100 other people listening in, make a not of our top 9 tips for proper conference call etiquette…