The school summer holidays are almost here, and if you thought working from home was tough while the kids were at school, wait until they’re off and need entertaining for weeks on end – the constant need for attention, coupled with the hot, sunny weather could make getting any work done all but impossible.
It always pays to plan in advance though, so here are six top tips to make sure the summer holidays aren’t a complete wash-out, at least as far as your work is concerned…
The ‘courier scam’ is a global issue that intensified late last year and presented another worrying trend in the new world of digital payments and card scams. Courier scams have…
Let’s not kid ourselves, Apple phone chargers are flimsy and expensive – I’ve not had one iPhone that doesn’t need a new charger after six months – but buying a fake to save a few pounds could prove costly.
Spring Loaded – the eagerly-awaited Apple Event – took place this week. Tim Cook and his team presented a variety of new devices. Here are the highlights of the keynote…
For as long as any of us can remember, working from home was seen as a perk – a way to miss the grind of the daily commute and get a better work/life balance.
But since many of us have been forced to work from home exclusively during the pandemic, there seems to have been a growing number of people complaining that they’re fed up of working for home and long for a return to the office.
Even the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has weighed in and suggested workers might actually quit their jobs if they’re not allowed back to work. So, would you consider walking away from work if you were told that telecommuting was to become permanent?
At the turn of the century, the very idea of a smartphone would have seemed like science fiction – although we had basic camera phones and video calling by then, not many of us really expected that the tech would explode so rapidly that we’d all be carrying small, powerful computers around with us every day.
And no one would have predicted how much we’d come to rely on them. We use our smartphones for pretty much everything now – banking, taking photos, monitoring fitness levels, keeping up with the news, posting to social media, and – sometimes – making phone calls.
But do our smartphones know too much personal information? And are we doing enough to protect all that sensitive data?
Lockdown has meant that more of us now work from home. This means more of us are potentially blurring the boundaries between home life and work life. And with little else left to do but sit inside for most of the day, many of us are massively upping our screen time if only to give ourselves something – anything – to do.
So, if you’re smitten by your smartphone, tethered to your laptop and pretty much constantly connected, here’s how to have a digital detox.
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft agley” so wrote Robert Burns in 1785 – and it’s a verse that has stood the test of time, as no matter how through your plans, things can still go awry.
And although using ConferenceCall.co.uk to set up a conference call for up to 100 participants could hardly be easier, there’s always the possibility not everything will go to plan and some people might miss the call.
Even setting a free SMS reminder isn’t fail-safe.
And while we can’t guarantee not everyone will be able to make the conference call, we can guarantee that no-one need miss a word thanks to our free conference call recording facility.
You can now record your conference calls to distribute to those that couldn’t attend or even just for archiving purposes – all free of charge and without the need for any extra equipment.
Here’s how…
It seems people are pulling together to help local businesses out of lockdown, as two thirds of people say they’ll shop local to support small businesses.
The coronavirus lock lock down means more of will be forced into working from home with partners friends or other family members, and all that time spent between the same four walls can put a strain on even the strongest of relationships – living in each other’s pockets day-after-day could be enough to drive you crazy.
Here’s how to make working from home work for you in a house full of people.