NR Mobile working news - Page Categories View All Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR Select Category Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR May 29th 2012 Mobile workers keeping devices on 24/7 Mobile working has the potential to offer many benefits to businesses and organisations. Equipping workers with smartphones, tablets and web-enabled laptops can enable them to work on the move, reducing the amount of ‘dead time’ ... May 11th 2012 Mobile working buoyed by Virgin’s onboard communication services Virgin Atlantic has announced plans to allow phone calls and texts onboard its services, which will encourage mobile working for its customers. According to the Telegraph, the move will make Virgin Atlantic the first airline in Britain to ... May 10th 2012 Mobile working: The growing importance of MDM As more businesses and organisations embrace mobile working, mobile device management (MDM) is becoming increasingly important. IT analyst Gartner claimed that an added focus must be placed on MDM to ensure the benefits of mobile solutions ... May 04th 2012 Use BYOD to encourage mobile working Introducing the ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) concept into the office can promote mobile working practices in the long-term, potentially saving companies plenty of money. Allowing staff to use their own laptops and tablets ... Apr 27th 2012 No evidence of mobile technology health risks as yet More and more office workers and other employees are turning to handheld technology as they bid to work more flexibly and with greater agility. Sales of smartphones and media tablets have soared in recent years, as professional people have ... Apr 24th 2012 Brits call for 4G services for mobile working British professionals want to see next-generation mobile services launch in the UK as soon as possible, a new study has suggested. In a poll conducted by Everything Everywhere – the UK parent company of Orange and T-Mobile – 82 ... Apr 11th 2012 Mobile working and hot desking can motivate staff Business leaders have various options as they attempt to motivate staff, keep them engaged and secure their loyalty for the long term. The easiest way to keep workers happy may be to give them a pay rise, but in difficult economic times this may ... Apr 02nd 2012 Higher earners ‘exercise more’ Higher earners tend to work out at the gym about three times more than those on lower incomes, according to a survey. The study, by Nuffield Health, found the top earners spent on average almost three hours a week hitting the gym while people on ... Mar 30th 2012 Employees seek mobile working approval More than half of all employees believe they can work more effectively from a remote location than in the office, a new report has found. Research conducted by Microsoft indicates that 55 per cent believe they are more productive when taking ... Mar 27th 2012 Maximise value of media tablets with customised apps The use of customised applications can help business make the most of media tablets, one analyst has claimed. Richard Absalom, author of an Ovum report on tablet computers, claimed that the use of generic apps may see companies miss out on the ... Mar 20th 2012 Switch off smartphones at least once a week, workers urged Banning office workers from using their smartphones one night a week can lead to a happier and more contented workforce, it has been claimed. Researchers at Harvard Business School found that workers who stopped checking their mobile working ... Mar 16th 2012 Videoconferencing revenues continue to rise As ever more companies set up a base in shared office space, the amount of money spent on communication technologies is continuing to increase. Videoconferencing technology in particular is proving highly popular – with enterprise ... Mar 06th 2012 Mobile working ‘hampered by under-pressure networks’ Technology and data consumption are evolving faster than business infrastructure and mobile networks are able to adapt, it has been claimed. According to mobility services provider iPass, employees are becoming increasingly dissatisfied ... Feb 29th 2012 Different skills needed by the next generation of office workers The next generation of office workers will need an entirely different set of skills than those who have gone before, according to new research. As requirements for modern businesses change, so do the ways in which employees work and Virgin ... Feb 28th 2012 Greater sophistication in videoconferencing makes it the future of mobile working The phenomenon which is mobile working and has taken off in the UK in recent years has been mainly based on technology and how it has allowed the practice to evolve. According to Robert Half UK, 38 per cent of companies will offer the option to work ... Feb 23rd 2012 Mobile working to be boosted by 4G by the end of this year Mobile working has only been made possible due to advancements in technology in recent years, but as devices improve at a fast pace, internet capabilities must do the same. Now Everything Everywhere, which is the company that owns both Orange ... Feb 21st 2012 38% of companies to offer mobile working The number of firms offering mobile working as an option to staff is steadily rising with 38 per cent saying they will allow the practice in the first six months of this year. This is according to a study carried out by Robert Half UK, which looked ... Feb 20th 2012 Half of the population now own a smart phone No wonder the number of people deciding to partake in flexible and mobile working is on the rise, as more than half of the population now owns a smartphone. This is according to a study carried out by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, who found that 50.3 ... Feb 13th 2012 Idea development and sharing made faster by digital age The development of ideas and sharing them among staff has been speeded up exponentially according to the vice president of Google Enterprise. Sebastien Marotte told the BBC, as part of its Future of Work series, that social media, mobile working ... Feb 10th 2012 Finnish firm contemplating redesigning the office workday A Finnish company has come to the conclusion that the typical office workday needs to be redesigned in order to make it more productive. The Idealist Group has undertaken a 12 month study in order to look at the working practices of a number of ... Feb 08th 2012 Biggest flexible working experiment underway The main office of O2 was shut today as the mobile phone giant carried out an experiment to see how well its employees and infrastructure cope with flexible working. It is the biggest initiative of its kind as 3,000 members of staff have been forced ... Feb 06th 2012 Government’s flexible working road tested This week will see the government’s plans for civil servants to undertake flexible working during the Olympic Games given a dry run. Many of those in the employ of the state will endeavour to work from home during the event to bypass public ... Feb 02nd 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, ... Feb 01st 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 found ... Jan 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. Further ... Jan 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 ... Jan 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 preparedness ... Jan 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, called ... Jan 23rd 2012 Business prioritise blocking social media over security Businesses are prioritising blocking the use of social media on electronic devices over data security, a new study has found. Office workers across Europe were surveyed by Trend Micro and it emerged that while 72 per cent of firms have policies ... Jan 19th 2012 Online portal launched to boost flexible working An online portal has been launched by the Anywhere Working Consortium in order to help businesses move towards more flexible working practices. 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