Published November 14, 2022
The Covid pandemic changed may well have changed the workplace forever – particularly office-base workplaces. With physical contact off-limits, many employees pivoted to working from home. This continued once lockdown restrictions and precautions ended, with many businesses now offering hybrid working as the norm.
This has meant more meetings are being held virtually, particularly via conference call or video call – but could the metaverse be about to change the landscape once more? One HR specialist thinks so.
Published November 7, 2022
Black Friday falls on Friday, November 25 this year. One of the USA’s most recent exports, it’s now unofficially the start of the Christmas shopping period.
Never ones to miss out on a marketing opportunity, most big retailers now offer deals right throughout November. There are some great bargains to be had – tech bargains in particular – but it’s also open season for online scammers. It seems that fake websites are a particular problem, with an estimated 18,000 being created every day.
Here’s how to make sure you steer clear of online scams this Black Friday and beyond.
Published October 28, 2022
BNB and Ethereum chains are the most targeted by Web3 criminals, accounting for more than half of all losses. But what are BNB and Etherium? What’s a Web3 criminal? And should you be worried?
Published September 16, 2022
Each day, businesses across the country handle countless transactions and obtain vast amounts of data. Unfortunately, while processing and utilizing this data, the opportunity for human error is high. These…
Published September 8, 2022
Presentations can be tricky things to pull off, particularly conference call presentations where you can’t see your audience and adjust your delivery speed and pitch to match their reactions.
Not only that, there’s also no guarantee they’ll be looking at the slides you’ve sent across – you’d be surprised the things people get up to while on a teleconference.
So it’s important you make any presentations as engaging as possible, here’s how…
Published August 15, 2022
If you’ve business interests in Italy, or looking for an opportunity, you might want to get out there, be hands on and get to sample everything this beautiful country has to offer. But because this might not always be possible for busy business owners, and so you might need an alternative.
And there is a simple and inexpensive way to connect with Italy that needs nothing more than a landline or mobile telephone – so here’s how to quickly and easily set up a conference call between UK and Italy.
Published July 28, 2022
We’ve been banging the work from home drum for years now, but even we can see that it’s not for everyone – at least not full time. Since the pandemic kicked off, many workplaces have adopted a hybrid model where possible – that’s when employees work a couple of days at home and spend a couple in the office.
But if you’re having to work at home all the time, there’s a chance that you could be getting tired of being stuck in the same spare room and sick of staying at home all day. If this sounds like you, here’s how to beat work from home burnout.
Published July 12, 2022
The crypto bubble may be bursting, but it seems there’s no stopping the cyber criminals as return from investment scams have jumped by more than 50% from May 2021 to May 2022.
Published June 28, 2022
Intellectual property is a set of legal rights put in place to stop a person or business stealing another’s ideas, designs or products.
Just having an idea isn’t quite enough to secure intellectual property rights though, you’ll have to have something more tangible in place – so while having an idea for a book won’t count, any words you have written towards that book will.
So, if you’ve come up with the prototype for the next must-have piece of tech or a winning idea for a new business, here’s all you need to know about intellectual property in the UK…
Published June 9, 2022
No one is safe from hackers, and a new study from Security HQ has found that cyber criminals are now targeting the legal sector.
Out of 40 practices investigated, ‘75% reported having been the victims of a cyber-attack’ and for ‘23 of those that were directly targeted, over £4m of client money was stolen’. What makes this worse is that ‘Half of the firms were found to have allowed unrestricted use of external data storage media.’ reports the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Report.
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