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Keeping your homeworkers motivated

The benefits of allowing staff to work from home are well-known; it helps them achieve a better work/life balance, it can help boost productivity and even save businesses money in the long run. However, having your workforce scattered across ...

Oct 11th 2013

Messy desks costing businesses time and money

Office workers are being urged to do more to keep their desks tidy, after the findings of a new report were revealed. The study – by technology firm Brother – found that UK businesses lose 35.7 million days each year through staff ...

Oct 10th 2013

Technology the key to the UK’s smart cities

Cities across the UK are being encouraged to “get smart”, thanks to a new government initiative that has been launched yesterday (October 9th). The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has introduced its Smart Cities ...

Nov 29th 2012

Hot desking ‘can help council save £10m per year’

A UK local authority is looking to save millions through a new hot desking scheme, it has been reported. According to the Western Morning News, Devon County Council is looking to sell off 28 properties over the next five years in order to slash ...

Sep 28th 2012

Hot desking ‘will see offices shrink’

The wider availability of cloud-based services and other digital tools will enable many companies to reduce the size of their offices, it has been claimed. Research conducted by technology provider Citrix indicates that organisations ...

Aug 31st 2012

Keep office costs low using hot desking

In order to operate as efficiently as possible and maximise their profit margins, companies need to ensure they make the best use of their office space. This is particularly important for businesses based in London and other major cities, ...

Aug 13th 2012

Local council ‘to create office hubs for staff’

A local authority is looking to reduce costs and maximise productivity by consolidating its staff across a smaller number of buildings. As reported by the Grimsby Telegraph, North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC) is moving employees out ...

Jun 29th 2012

Employees ‘ready to embrace hot desking’

One of the key considerations for a company planning to introduce hot desking is likely to be the attitude of its employees towards working from home. If staff members are not prepared to ‘buy in’ to smart working practices, and ...

May 30th 2012

Employers to use Olympics as a boost for remote working

The Olympics’ effect on the UK is set to be massive in terms of tourism and exposure but it could also have an effect on the UK’s workforce too. That’s according to the results of a recent Chartered Institute of Personnel and ...

May 23rd 2012

Hot desking can help businesses cut office costs

With the ongoing economic climate putting businesses under pressure to cut costs, any measures that can be implemented to reduce expenditure are worth considering. A major expense for many businesses is the premises they use to go about their ...

May 16th 2012

Cut out the stressful commute by walking to the office

For employees who spend their working days in London office space, the commute is likely to be one of the more stressful parts of their day. Whether they take the Tube, the bus or drive through the traffic to work, they are likely to be faced with ...

May 15th 2012

How much space does a business office need?

When setting up an office, businesses and organisations have to consider a number of competing interests, with cost and comfort perennially at odds. Employers want their staff to be happy in their working environment and have access to all ...

May 14th 2012

Office employees happy to work flexibly

The growing popularity of flexible working schemes means business leaders should face only limited opposition to the introduction of serviced or virtual offices. For many companies, such facilities allow them to reduce overheads significantly ...

Mar 15th 2012

Involve employees in office design decisions

For growth-focused businesses, maximising employee productivity is an absolute must. Front-line staff provide the consumer face for most organisations, and it is they who are responsible for delivering output on a daily basis. As such, ...

Jan 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 working ...

Dec 19th 2011

Fit notes substitute sick notes

The idea of a fit note instead of a sick note is designed to give a more positive approach to staff wishing to return to work after a period of sickness and allow them to do so on a more flexible basis. As offices from London to Milton Keynes and Bristol ...

Oct 26th 2011

A third of office workers have had an affair at work

Shared offices can lead to romantic liaisons and it has now emerged that one in three office workers has had a work based affair, reports the Telegraph. The survey commissioned by Sony of 2,000 workers across fields such as law, marketing and ...

Oct 20th 2011

One in three want to work from home

More than one in three people would like the option of working from home according to a poll conducted by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP). Research into flexible working found that out of 293 people, 36 per cent liked ...

Oct 14th 2011

Football star welcomes new eco office

Former Manchester United and England footballer Gary Neville officially unveiled a new carbon negative office in West Yorkshire yesterday. Neville, 36, has a keen interest in environmental property and famously won approval for his own ...

Oct 14th 2011

Youth unemployment big issue in East Anglia

Young people are the hardest hit by unemployment in East Anglia according to new figures. Norwich saw a 12 per cent rise in people out of work compared to the same period last year. Currently there are 4,450 people without a job in the Norfolk city ...

Oct 13th 2011

Team-desking can reduce costs

Reducing desks while not reducing staffing levels helped Cable and Wireless Worldwide’s move to its new Bracknell office more cost effective, revealed director of IT operations Richard Wilson. Speaking with cio.co.uk, Mr Wilson ...

Oct 11th 2011

CEO of Vodafone advocates hot desking

Guy Laurence, the CEO of Vodafone since 2009, has spoken about his unconventional attitude towards offices and how he utilises hot desks and flexible working in an interview with the Telegraph. Announcing that a lot of the ways in which the ...

Sep 28th 2011

Prince William admits to hot desking in Daily Mail interview

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the Duke of Cambridge has admitted that the Duchess, Prince Harry and himself do in fact hot desk due to the fact they only have two desks in the office they share. The trio work out of a first-floor study in a small ...

Jun 17th 2011

Public Sector Funding Cuts and Space Saving

Hot desking and mobile working could become more prevalent for local authorities and other public sector bodies as they face further need to find savings in accommodation costs, it has been claimed. Ken Eastwood, of Public Sector Nomads, ...

May 12th 2011

Hot desking and cool lighting add atmosphere to place of work

Intelligent lighting, hot desking and a fun room are just a few of the innovations being used at the Philips office in India to create a more productive workplace. The office houses revolutionary concepts for businesses in India in a bid to simplify ...

Apr 19th 2011

Council begins hot desking scheme to save money

A council in the Midlands is aiming to save more than £3.5 million through the introduction of a hot desking scheme. Sandwell Council near Wolverhampton is bringing in the measure as part of an economy drive to save £75 million over the next four ...

Apr 06th 2011

Hotdesking really is hot in Lynne Franks’ office space in Bristol!

Queen of PR Lynne Franks will be hotdesking her way around her new shared office space in Bristol after opening up a new facility for self-employed women in the city. Sixty-two-year-old Franks, who was allegedly the inspiration for sitcom ...