One way to get ahead of the curve in the modern workplace, is to actively participate in an eco-friendly office culture. Not only will you be helping the environment, you may even bolster your company’s public image and attract new customers. Other companies are starting to get wise to the idea. Forbes have said that [...]
Without realising it, your employees or fellow staff members may be experiencing unnecessary difficulties in the workplace which, over time, could be resulting in low productivity. Underachieving employee performance at work can be caused by a variety of factors; from miscommunication and bad delegation through the chain of management, to stress and dropping staff morale. [...]
If you work at a desk throughout the week, you should take an active role in making your surroundings accommodating to your needs and interests. After all, you probably spend quite a lot of time sitting there and it's up to you to make it your space. In the process, you may even improve the [...]
Repetition of a movement, inactivity and bad posture in the workplace can all, over time, lead to physical problems such as Repetitive Strain injury. Often, we are causing unnecessary strain to ourselves without even being aware. In addition to this, there are increased risks of more serious health problems in later life. Those who remain [...]
If you are an employer who hires university and college graduates, you may want to think in terms of the future. Staying ahead of the curve will be achieved by understanding and accommodating younger staff. The stuffy environment of yesterday’s office is quickly becoming obsolete. For a variety of reasons, it has become widely accepted [...]
With the start of the new year we all lay out our plans and resolutions for 2018 both personal and organisational. This year all businesses across the EU will have another objective imposed on us, which is to have our organisations GDPR compliant by May 2018. What is GDPR? GDPR is (General Data Protection Regulation) [...]
World Backup Day is coming soon. Have you backed up today? No? Why not? The statistics are frightening: 30% of people have never backed up their data. 113 phones are lost or stolen every minute. 29% of data loss disasters are caused by accident. 1 in 10 computers are infected with a virus every month. [...]
Whilst making personal changes can be a good thing, you might need to look at your business and see if changes are required there also from an IT perspective. Virus writers, hackers, spammers are getting more and more ingenious in their methods of getting at your data. Over the course of 2015, we had several people [...]
