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…
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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…

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…

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 Does Brexit Mean For You?
The UK was scheduled to leave the European Union (EU) on 29th March 2019. Failure to pass Theresa May’s withdrawal deal through Parliament has led to the EU granting a six-month extension – agreed on 11th April 2019 – with a new deadline set for 31st October 2019. Boris Johnson was determined to leave the EU by this…

How to promote good mental health within the workplace
#Doyoumind? It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week-a week centred around education and raising awareness of mental illness. In respect of this week, we’ve compiled a list of tips you can use within your daily lives. Whether you’re at home or work, an employee or an employer. These tips are sure to help promote positive mental health,…

The Top 5 Must Have Apps For Small Businesses
The Best Apps for Small Businesses in 2019 #worksmarternotharder Time management has been highlighted as one of the biggest issues for small businesses. When you run a small business, you’re pulled in multiple directions, acting as a multi-tasker and caretaker of all the day-to-day business duties. To combat this, we have put together our list…

Little changes that make big differences for small businesses
2019, what an exciting time to be alive! The world is a much smaller place, with destinations and countries as close as a simple plane trip away. In the modern age, technology is king and the barriers for business startups have never been lower. So, what can small businesses do in this new age to…

Why you should create buyer blueprints
Developing a good idea of who your best customers really are will help you find a strong market for your business. Business is all about the customer In the end, business is all about the customer. You can break through and take your product to market, but you can’t make them buy it. Therefore, you…