Permanent Changes or Temporary Solutions to Office Life? As the coronavirus pandemic persists, employees are getting used to working from home with many noticing benefits including avoiding stressful, time consuming commutes; saving money on travel and food; managing work more efficiently; fewer interruptions; and seeing their children more often. Once the pandemic passes, it is…
How To Prepare For A Return To Work
Easing Yourself Into The New Normal Whatever the measures you have followed during the Covid-19 pandemic – self isolation, lockdown or quarantine – the government are now slowly allowing people to return to work. As you re-enter your workplace, you might find that the transition is a difficult one so if you are returning to…
Getting Back To Business
Adapting Your Office For Safe Working With lockdown restrictions slowly easing, the pressure is on for businesses to comply with Government-led guidelines and ensure social distancing and hygiene precautions are fully implemented in offices and workspaces. These include a coronavirus health and safety audit for all businesses of more than five people, increasing the frequency…
How To Cope with Fear of Leaving Lockdown
Prepare For Life After Lockdown As the world begins to ease its restrictions, or talk about what life will be like after lockdown, so many of us are planning who we will see and what we will do. There is a strong sense of freedom building with talk of meeting for drinks, staycations, going to…
Benefits of Putting Pen to Paper
In today’s increasingly digital world, the trusty notepad can often be overlooked in favour of to-do list apps and other digital note taking alternatives. It sometimes seems as if the good old fashioned practice of putting pen to paper has lost its allure. However, science shows that there are numerous benefits to writing things down…
The Best Video Tools For Home Working
With your way of working having most likely relocated to your own home for the time being, you may have found that using video technology to communicate with your colleagues has become the norm in recent days and weeks. So, what different kinds of video technology are available and how should you be using them…
Adjusting To Life In Lockdown
Embrace Change Successfully Recently, we have all found ourselves having to adapt, both in our personal and professional lives. The ability to quickly and successfully adapt to and embrace change will undoubtedly be a key skill for the workforce of the future. The prospect of continual change may understandably cause some fear and anxiety but…
Working From Home
Since Monday, the UK has banned people from leaving their homes apart from for a few very limited reasons – this means the majority of us are now working from home until the foreseeable future. If you’re lucky enough to have a home office – you’re in the minority. Rather than office desks and chairs,…
What You Need To Know About Waste & Recycling
What Do We Waste & Why Is It A Problem? Waste is everywhere. We waste natural resources by digging up, using and burning more than we actually need; we waste the products we make with supermarkets leaving unwanted food to rot in fields and we even waste our waste by sending masses of items to…
Health & Safety in the Workplace
Being safe at work is extremely important and the responsibility of both the employer and the employee. One of the most fundamental principles of workplace health and safety is risk assessments which identify all the hazards and potential harm whilst working. However, when running a small business, it can be easy to overlook the health…
