Brits invest in high quality desk equipment as they gear up for permanent remote working
Brits are making their home offices a more permanent fixture by purchasing their own office equipment, according to new research.
71% of tech workers ‘would move overseas and work remotely if they could’
The majority of tech employees would move, either to a different country (71%) or a different region of the UK (8%) if they were able to work remotely and retain the same job and remuneration, according to a new survey.
Half of office staff to continue to work from home over summer despite lockdown easing
More than half of office workers will continue to work from home for the rest of the summer despite the government’s efforts to get them to return, according to new research.
CES takes technology conference digital-only for 2021
One of the world’s biggest tchnology conferencess CES will be online-only in 2021, the organisers have confirmed.
Surge in demand for tech courses and training as economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic continues to bite
Searches for tech courses and training are up by over 40% on average during lockdown, according to new research.
iProov provides free online biometric safeguarding for intergenerational mentoring platform bloomd
Biometric authentication technology iProov is providing its services free of charge to bloomd, a start-up supporting the coronavirus crisis.
Working from home: Brits confess to sleeping on the job
Binging on Netflix (37%), sleeping on the job (25%) and household chores (24%) are what Brits working from home are actually doing instead of their day job, according to new research.
Working from home saves London commuters 24 days per year in travel time
Commuters journeying into the UK capital spend nearly two and a half hours per day travelling door-to-door, an average of £10,020 worth of unpaid time, according to new research looking into the costs and savings of remote working.
Fujitsu cuts office space by 50% as remote working becomes the new ‘standard’
Technology firm Fujitsu is to halve its office space in Japan as it adapts to the coronavirus pandemic, letting staff work flexible hours and working from home will be standard wherever possible.
How UK workers foresee the working routines of tomorrow
As UK lockdown restrictions continue to be eased, new research from Citrix has revealed how British office workers foresee the working routines of tomorrow.
Spotify and Universal Music sign up to #BrandShareTheMic talent initiative
Brands including Spotify, Depop and Globe (Universal Music) have signed up to the new #BrandShareTheMic initiative, showcasing the spectrum of standout Black talent by magnifying their voices on brand’s Instagram accounts.
Volunteer marketplace expands for furloughed workers
A new volunteer marketplace, Furloughed Life, has launched to assist workers on furlough gain more skills during the COVID-19 pandemic.
No pets or children! Video conferencing etiquette makes workers anxious during lockdown
Although over 82% of workers are keen to work remotely in future, they face a number of challenges in doing so – and the younger generation is particularly adversely affected, according to new research.
No programming required: Amazon Web Services launches ‘Honeycode’ to help businesses build apps and websites
Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service that allows customers to build mobile and web applications – with no programming required, with Slack and SmugMug among customers already planning to use the service.
Remote work forever? 40% of managers considering staff home working ‘beyond pandemic’
Two fifths of managers believe their company would benefit from remote working in the future, and would consider encouraging their company to be fully remote beyond the pandemic, according to new research.
What agencies want from clients: Brands missing out with wrong KPIs and cost-centric focus
Poor processes, few face-to-face meetings, a lack of focus on how clients can improve and the dominance of ‘cost-only’ KPIs mean brands are missing a major chance to enhance their relationships with agency partners around the world and deliver smarter communications, according to new research.
Brands invited to #BrandShareTheMic for black voices and talent
Youth marketing agency Livity has set up a new initiative called #BrandShareTheMic as a call to arms for brands – and the agencies supporting them – to take positive action to showcase the spectrum of standout Black talent by magnifying their voices on Friday 3rd July.
‘Propeller offices’: A solution for remote and office work during a pandemic?
Workspace strategy firm Unispace has launched a new concept for workplace design that addresses the evolution of the workplace in a post-COVID-19 business landscape.
Two in five social conversations among PR and communications leaders ‘are about recovery’
PR and Communications leaders are increasingly focused on recovery in Q2, with ‘learn from’ and ‘get back to’ among the most used terms in communications, according to new research. The Vuelio Barometer analyses themes dominating the public posts of 897 executives....Worst 15 jargon words of 2020: ‘Curated’, ‘ideation ‘and ‘the new normal’ top list
‘Circle back’, ‘reach out’ and ‘disambiguate’ are among the most annoying overused phrases in business, with a number of pandemic-related buzzwords already making the list, according to new data.