On Monday we looked at whether working from home could be killing the day job – the theory being that not getting up, out and into the office somehow made our work seem meaningless.
If you missed it, check out Is working from home ruining work?
And while we would never fully endorse such as suggestion, it is true that working from home isn’t necessarily for everyone.
So, are you cut out to work from home? Read on to find out…
There are just 73 days left until Christmas – meaning it won’t be long before the inevitable festive madness begins and you can’t move for people asking if you’ve started the Christmas shopping.
It’s not just consumers who get caught up in the Christmas rush though, if you’re travelling by train to visit clients or conduct meetings in December, you could be hit hard in the pocket unless you sort out your rail travel soon.
Analysis from Trainline estimates travellers will overspend on train tickets by a stocking-stifling £4 million this festive period, and are encouraging everyone to save money by making their bookings early this year.
It’s been 30 years since the launch of the first Microsoft Windows – and a lot has changed during the intervening years, not least in the tech landscape.
The UK’s top 20 coolest brands may not be something that’s necessarily on your radar – why would an arbitrary measure of something the vast majority of consumers buy into, or would like to buy into, ever be on anyone’s radar?
If you’re into tech though, this year’s list makes for interesting reading – not only does a tech brand top the list, other tech brands are clearly on the up.
Is your small business using social media effectively? Is your small business using social media at all?
Yesterday we took a look at the importance of having a website and the influence this can have on the growth of a small business, and today we’re going to get to grips with how small businesses in the UK are using social media.
If you’re the owner of a very small business – we love an abbreviation here so let’s call it a VSB – and you don’t have a website, you’re potentially missing out on vital future growth.
More worrying still is that you’re far from alone as 60% of VSBs in the UK are without a website.
So just how important is a website to a small business?
If you’re an employer, you may be concerned that offering staff the chance to work from home could lead to a drop in productivity – but for many employees, the exact opposite is true and some feel the need to get away from the office to concentrate on their work.
A FlexJobs survey of over 2,600 employees found more than three-quarters (76%) of respondents get out of the office when they have to focus on important projects.
And of those who do prefer to work in the office, many would sooner work there out of the traditional nine-to-five office hours.
So is it time to end the nine-to-five?
The hackers who last month attacked the Ashley Madison website have today released the names, email addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card numbers of 37 million users of the infidelity site.
The government is considering increasing the penalty for violations of online piracy laws to include a jail term of up to ten years – a massive five-fold increase on the current maximum term of two years.
Ministers have launched a consultation to bring sanctions in line with those imposed on anyone who infringes copyright laws on physical goods.
The internet has made the world a smaller place – a concept that has been completely lost on phone operators across the globe who feel not all internet connections are created equally.
So if you’ve ever got back from holiday only to find you’ve been charged the earth for those texts, Tweets and Instagram updates, you’ll be happy to know data roaming charges are to be scrapped within the European Union (EU) within the next two years.