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February 3rd, 2012 - BE launch The Ant Games
The countdown to London 2012 is officially underway! Like many companies we’re setting up a full range of flexible working solutions to allow our clients to work efficiently during the hectic Olympic period, but to get you into the m...

February 2nd, 2012 - Mobile working shouldn’t mean compulsively checking emails
Advancements in modern technology make mobile working possible, but it should not lead to employees checking their phones compulsively. This is the opinion of Ian Price, the author of a book on the subject entitled The Activity Illusion,...

February 1st, 2012 - Alarm system to monitor office employee’s toilet breaks deemed a violation of privacy
A surveillance system which has been installed into a Norwegian office in order to limit employees to eight minutes of toilet time a day has been deemed a violation of privacy. An alarm sounds if any of the staff at the call centre exceed their...

February 1st, 2012 - New report compares 2012 working life to 1952
A new report has compared the working life of employees in 1952 with those of today and found that staff were under just as much pressure then. Commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Dr John Philpott fo...

January 31st, 2012 - 1 in 4 staff believe they’ll have multiple jobs by 2036
The idea of a career for life has become outdated, according to research carried out by Office Angels. Within 25 years people will try out a number of different jobs and move around in order to guarantee job security the results suggested. Fu...

January 30th, 2012 - Unilever to be 30% location-free by 2015
The international company Unilever has made a commitment to make 30 per cent of the staff positions in its business location-free by 2015. Since the firm advocates flexible and mobile working new recruits are allowed to decide where they w...

January 30th, 2012 - London’s mobile workers missing out on 3G speeds
Much of the recent rise in the number of mobile workers can be put down to advancements in technology such as smartphones. It may surprise many people in light of this that London is lagging behind the rest of the UK’s top cities in terms...

January 27th, 2012 - Whitehall to undertake flexible working revolution
The Civil Service is to become part of the new trend for flexible and mobile working, with the Olympic Games acting as a catalyst for this change. This new approach will continue after the summer’s events are finished, bringing worki...

January 27th, 2012 - Businesses need to prepare for impact of Olympics
The UK is only six months away from the Olympic Games, but many companies have not prepared for the impact it will have, according to new research. When Badenoch & Clark spoke to 1,000 office workers in order to gain a picture of the prepar...

January 26th, 2012 - Jelly events benefit home workers
With the rise of flexible and mobile working come some drawbacks and one of which is that those who are used to an office atmosphere can miss the social side of working in a traditional manner. An idea, which originally started in New York, cal...