Technology is meant to make our working lives a whole lot easier and, ideally, our working week shorter – British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted we’d all be working 15-hour weeks by 2030, but 15-hour days looks like it could be closer to the mark. So if you’re one of those workaholics who never goes […]
Can employees be trusted to work from home? It’s the age old question that bugs any employer who offers, or is thinking of offering, flexible working to any of their employees. Of course, all the evidence suggests that employees who are able to work from home and fit their job around other commitments are not only happier […]
Working from home has never been more popular – at the last count the number of people working remotely was some 4million and rising – and while evidence suggest remote workers are happier and more productive than their office-based contemporaries, we reckon it’s all about getting the balance right. That’s because even if individual workers are more productive […]
Are you always turned on? OK, let’s put it another way – do you have trouble switching off from work? Most of us, at one time or another, will have had occasions when we can’t switch off from work – usually when we’re up against some tight deadlines or just have a mountain of work […]
Have you heard the one about the housewife who earns up to £75,000 a year working from home? How about the one where you double your salary by working just ten hours a week -from home?! What about the old classic where you can pick up £3,000 a week – while working at home?! If […]
Home workers are more productive than those who are stuck in the office from nine-to-five, according to research from the London School of Economics (LSE). The findings showed that those who work from home are grateful for the flexibility and the time saved through missing the daily commute is put back into work – proving that getting up […]
Over half of us (58%) have received suspicious phone calls angling for sensitive data like bank details and last year the amount of money lost to phone scams tripled – with fraudsters cashing in to the tune of a staggering £23.9 million. They are the alarming findings of a study from Financial Fraud Action UK […]
The UK is home to some 4.2 million home workers – a 30% rise on the number who were working from home at the turn of the millennium – and the reasons why it’s taken off so much over the past decade are wide and varied. The economic downturn has played a part – some […]
Back in 2010 David Cameron, Britain’s Prime Minister, declared that “Britain is now open for business” while on a trade mission to China. And he wasn’t kidding – the UK has seen the number of self-employed rise by 650,000 to 4.5million in the last five years. This means the self-employed now account for 15% of […]
Teenagers are an image-conscious lot – but where it was once about having jeans from a must-have designer, the latest statement t-shirts, or the newest trainers, it seems today’s teens are turning their attentions to the latest, must have tech. And whereas teenagers would never be seen dead or otherwise in ‘fake’ remakes of designer brands, […]