What’s your plan for flexible working?
As the world reopens, it becomes apparent that many businesses are reluctant to revert fully to pre-COVID operations. Flexible working is being widely adopted for the longer term, despite governments encouraging a return to the office. Social distancing has been reduced to 1 metre, infection rates have fallen, and a second wave is yet to […]
How to prevent bad habits when returning to the office
Returning to the office again after a few months of home working is probably giving millions of workers a sense of relief and nervousness. Roughly 44% of working adults have had to turn their living spaces into makeshift offices; this demonstrates just how impactful the COVID-19 pandemic has been on businesses of all kinds. That […]
Why Microsoft Teams is winning in the remote working era
Ever since the world went into lock down, businesses and employees stuck at home have been relying on internet-based video calling platforms. Does the term ”Teams” ring any bells? Microsoft has taken full advantage of the home working phase when it first surfaced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and, now more than ever, businesses […]
Mental Health, Covid19, and how Office365 can assist you
Covid19 has been the focal point for 2020. It has penetrated our personal and working lives in more ways than we could possibly have ever imagined. Sadly, one of the many parts of our lives it has affected, has been our mental health’s. People are working longer hours, and there has been lots of pressure […]
Your Microsoft Teams experience just got better
May saw the introduction of some valuable new features in Microsoft’s popular software Teams. The collaboration hub, which has seen an increase of 134% in daily active users since March, has accelerated on development since the pandemic began to support the rise in remote working. Previous updates include background effects, increasing the view of participants […]
‘Out of office’ in a remote working world
In the pre-COVID-19 working world, one of the most self-explanatory and welcome acronyms you could come across was ‘OOO’. ‘Out of office’ – a simple message on your email account letting co-workers and acquaintances know that you’d be away from your desk for a period of time. Setting it up was simple too; in Microsoft […]
Top tips for returning to the office
With the COVID-19 lockdown beginning to ease, many businesses are starting to consider what a return to the office looks like. As an IT solutions provider, we were able to move fairly seamlessly to remote working and ‘business as usual’ could still be, for the most part, achieved. That said, across our business over 75% […]
The relentlessness of online meetings
The COVID-19 lockdown has forced a shift in habit for millions of businesses, accelerating them into a flexible working era that, prior to the pandemic, seemed quite a way off. In this new era of working from home, businesses of all types have been forced to embrace remote working practices and solutions; enter online meetings. […]
Microsoft Teams updates – 6th May 2020
The 10 best new features in Microsoft Teams Remote working is now more prominent than ever, and Microsoft Teams is the ultimate tool for keeping employees connected and engaged as they work from home. 2020 has already been quite a year for the collaboration platform, with heaps of new features introduced to improve the remote […]
Windows Virtual Desktops
What is a virtual desktop and how could it help your business survive COVID-19? We are living in challenging times; many businesses have stopped dead in their tracks while the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, and many are trying to meet increased demand with reduced resource. For IT businesses, the spotlight is solely on remote working […]