Our Thoughts - Page Categories View All Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR Select Category Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR Jun 02nd 2014 BE Supports Positive Action on World Environment Day We are inviting employees and clients to each take three positive eco-friendly steps to help mark World Environment Day on Thursday 5th June 2014. The United Nations’ World Environment Day (WED) is a red letter day in its calendar and the primary ... May 27th 2014 How businesses can cope with football fever this summer It probably won’t have escaped your notice that the World Cup is kicking off soon, and many of your staff will be keen to watch the matches. Although most games are on outside of normal 9-5 hours, law firm Adams & Remers said employers are still ... May 27th 2014 Putting the Sizzle in Sustainability “‘Sustainability’ covers many subjects. It has become a bit of a catch-all word, replacing ‘protection of the environment’, ‘ecology’ and activity around ‘saving the planet’.” ... May 20th 2014 Interns Exploited: All Work and No Pay Almost a third (31.60%) of workers feel their interns are exploited Over a fifth (21%) of UK companies aren’t paying their interns Nearly a third of companies treat interns unfairly, according to a study by serviced office provider Business ... May 13th 2014 Pros and cons of BYOD A growing number of small businesses are adopting a BYOD (bring your own device) policy to save them time and money. But opinion is still divided on how beneficial it is. According to a recent survey from Dell, security breaches cost UK organisations ... May 12th 2014 Confidence matters Authors of The Confidence Code, a book recently published in the USA looking at The science and art of self-assurance – what women should know, have stated that evidence suggests that as we still strive for equality in the workplace, women are ... Apr 29th 2014 5 tips for tackling stress in the workplace Stress could be costing business bosses dear in long-term employee absences, a new poll suggests. Nearly half of UK businesses (45%) rated mental health illness and stress as the primary reason behind staff long-term sickness. A further ... Apr 01st 2014 Five ways to treat your workers A happy worker tends to be a more productive worker. With that in mind, how can you ensure your staff come to the office each day with a smile on their face? A treat courtesy of the boss every now and again is likely to do wonders for morale and doesn’t ... Mar 27th 2014 Is the office tea run a thing of the past? According to UK charity, The Royal Voluntary Service, the humble office tea run could soon be a thing of the past. In the frantic world of the office worker, most would say that they simply haven’t the time to make a cuppa for a colleague. To coincide ... Mar 25th 2014 Giving your office the ultimate spring clean If the state of your personal workspace speaks volume about how organised you are as a person, imagine the impression that an entire office can give about your company. Daily office mess, disorganised files, a canteen pin board that hasn’t ... Mar 14th 2014 Six ways the internet has boosted businesses This week saw the world wide web turn 25 and while on a personal level, it’s difficult to imagine what life would have been like without Facebook, online shopping and search engines, it is arguably businesses which have gained the most from Tim ... Mar 13th 2014 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 ... Mar 10th 2014 Staff Motivation Matters – Demotivated, Disengaged Staff David Saul, Managing Director of leading serviced office operator Business Environment, explains the importance of motivating your employees. As the man who inspired one of the most successful and valuable companies in history, you can’t ... Mar 10th 2014 Sunday Times Top 100 Employer for Seventh Year Running! Business Environment, one of the UK’s foremost serviced office operators, has been named one of the country’s ‘100 Best Small Companies to Work For’ by the Sunday Times for the seventh consecutive year. In a year which saw hundreds of companies ... Mar 03rd 2014 Top 5 office drinks Do you often find yourself at work reaching for a can of Red Bull before the clock has even struck midday? Or perhaps you lose count of the number of cups of coffee you have to get you through the day? Well there are much better drinks to choose when ... Feb 25th 2014 Small business need to stand up for themselves Size matters: David Saul, Managing Director for Business Environment discusses the often unfair lack of recognition given to SME’s by policy makers Try a quick test. What first comes to mind when you hear the word “business”? I’d be ... Feb 20th 2014 The Office Desk Location Hierarchy It is widely accepted that the open-plan office originated in Germany in the 1950s. The office landscape – Bürolandschaft – concept led to the banishment of the once-popular exam-hall style rows of desks to make way for a less regimented approach ... Feb 13th 2014 Be my Valentine? BE Talks Loving your Customers It’s hard to walk into a shop at this time of year without stumbling over a proliferation of hearts, roses and declarations of love. And whether you embrace Valentine’s day and all that it stands for or remain cynical about its over-commercialisation, ... Feb 03rd 2014 Is Spending too long in the Office bad for Your Health? Nazia Ahmed, Director of Human Resources for serviced office provider Business Environment looks at how our working life is contributing to the UK’s obesity crisis It has been estimated that UK office workers spend five years of their ... Jan 30th 2014 So much for female solidarity: many women discriminate against members of their own gender, survey finds Women face almost as much workplace discrimination from other women as they do from men, according to a new poll by serviced office provider BE Offices The study, based on an independent survey of 1,500 people, found that a fifth (20.1 per cent) ... Jan 23rd 2014 BE Live on Sky News We were delighted to welcome Sky News into our buildings yesterday to film a series of interviews with our teams about their views on Pensions and Savings. We were on live on Sky News at 11:50 & 1:20 and they also created an indepth feature ... Dec 23rd 2013 Mentoring to transform your staff David Saul, managing director at Business Environment, takes a look at the importance of mentoring staff As the proverb goes: “you’re only as strong as your weakest link”. This quote is often attributed to sports teams – a weak pass in football ... Dec 10th 2013 UK firms Waste Millions each year on Christmas Parties Most would rather take money than have the party, with 20% considering them “a chore” The UK spends more than a quarter of a billion pounds on office parties – but for nearly half of the population the events are a chore more associated with drunkenness ... Dec 02nd 2013 Manic Monday puts pressure on UK employees Monday, December 2 is set to be the most stressful day of the year as British employees struggle to complete their Christmas preparations while wrapping up work in time for the festive holidays, according to a new study by serviced office provider ... Dec 02nd 2013 BE Offices continues winning streak with BCA Outstanding Leadership Award win Hot on the heels of its UK Customer Experience Award win, serviced office provider BE Offices added yet another accolade to its trophy cabinet with a special award for Outstanding Leadership at the annual Business Centre Association (BCA) ... Nov 26th 2013 CBI challenges Chancellor to promote business investment The CBI, the UK’s premier business lobbying organisation, providing a voice for employers at a national and international level, has challenged the Chancellor to promote business investment in his Autumn Statement scheduled for ... Nov 06th 2013 A happy client means a happy bottom line No matter what you do in your business or what service you provide, one thing unites us all: the need to keep our clients happy. When starting out, keeping clients and prospects happy can be the difference between making headway as a credible ... Sep 12th 2013 Video killed the in-person meeting? Few people watch ‘videos’ anymore – they watch DVDs, much in the same way that CDs have made tape cassettes largely redundant. There is, however, one area in the business world in which ‘video’ is a modernising force – and that’s meetings. Video ... Sep 12th 2013 Gaining comfort, maintaining professionalism Traditionally the phrase “sorry darling, I’m at the office” would conjure up an image of the typical overworked employee, confined by grey corporate walls, stacks of paper and the odd water cooler. What it didn’t suggest was cartoons, pyjamas ... Aug 22nd 2013 The Changing Meaning of Work Life Balance In 1831 Parliament passed a “Factory Act”, an early piece of workplace legislation, which limited the working day of people aged eighteen and under to a maximum of twelve hours. If the image of children routinely working shifts 50 per cent longer ... « Older EntriesNewer Entries » (Or jump to page 123456 of 6) The Changing Meaning of Work Life Balance