The Apprentice winner Ricky Martin and his PA Sandy Chander will be taking to the stage at office* later this month. Martin who won the BBC show in 2012 and is now the founder of Hyper Recruitment Solutions, will be gracing the Keynote Theatre on Wednesday 28 February, alongside Chander. During the session, the duo […]

Prestige Business Travel has joined the first of the PA Life Masterclasses, which has a key focus on business travel. As a roundtable sponsor of the Masterclass, the company will host a roundtable session dubbed: Your traveller, their risk, your responsibility, at Skinners’ Hall in London on March 13. Company director’s Sarah Blake and Louisa […]

If you enjoy putting together a spreadsheet and using three different colour highlighters during your working day, you could earn yourself the title as ‘office geek’. Researchers who polled 2,000 office employees found that half consider themselves to be someone who takes pride in having nice stationery and a tidy desk. The study found 29 […]

A short walk from Tower Hill tube station and Tower Gateway DLR, connections to all major city airports, and sweeping views of Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf, The Tower Hotel is a distinctly professional city destination capable, willing to cater to meetings, corporate events, private dining and beyond. With an understanding that not all events […]

The PA Life Summit is returning once again this year, where senior and board-level PAs will discover new opportunities to help respond to their daily challenges. The ‘must-attend’ event will take place on Monday 10 September, 2018 at Altitude 360 London, where guests will be able to experience a day of private meetings with corporate […]

The day-to-day running of the office is no easy job. Business-critical tasks like managing the diaries of senior team members and helping keep key customers happy require attention that time-consuming admin cuts into. The last thing PAs and EAs need is to waste valuable time finding the correct files or ensuring stationery is in the […]

In the run up to Valentine’s Day, PA Life’s Toby Cruse was invited down to The Listing, a newly opened  venue in Cannon Street that’s offering rich flavours, affordability and killer cocktails… Cannon Street, and the train stations that sit on it, aren’t known as a location of peace and quiet, so walking to The Listing on […]

The first of the PA Life Masterclasses is due to take place next month, with headline sponsor Capita Travel and Events set to host the opening presentation. Taking place on March 13 at Skinners’ Hall in London from 1pm to 8pm, Sam Welch, director of proposition at Capita, will discuss how PAs can get what […]

With the Business Travel Show weeks away, PA Life has joined forces with eforea spa to offer attendees to the expo the chance to win a spa day and afternoon tea. Attendees will all be able to enter for a chance to secure the prize simply by dropping by the PA Life stand: B482, and […]

Britain’s ‘golden triangle’ seen as the best areas to work in Britain The British cities home to the country’s top universities have topped Glassdoor’s study of the best work destinations of the last year, with Cambridge and Manchester ranking second and third, with experts anticipating a continued surge as we move towards Brexit. Golden Triangle […]

As we continue to keep you informed on what’s happening in the events world and keep up to date, don’t forget to check us out on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. 1. Dirty desks and smelly lunches top list of office annoyances Workers have revealed their top ten bugbears when it comes to office annoyances, with dirty […]

Anna Walmsley, owner of DCM VIP Event Management in the South of France, reveals her top tips for companies looking to hold an overseas meet-up. More and more companies are reaping the rewards of taking their employees abroad for seminars, exercises, business or incentive trips. It is an attractive treat that will encourage employees or […]

Caffè Nero is set to open the doors to its new store located at Emirates Old Trafford tomorrow at 7am. Boasting 170m2 in space, the coffee shop links directly to the stadium, Hilton Garden Inn Hotel and Brian Statham Way. This latest addition to the grounds follows on from a string of redevelopment projects, including […]

London’s QEII Centre welcomed more than 200 event planners to showcase its flagship evening events space this week. Following a recent refurbishment of its fifth and sixth floors as part of a £12 million capital investment project, the updated space can offer evening receptions, award ceremonies and banqueting events. Guests arrived into the Cambridge room […]

Here are some tips on how to boost your motivation at work throughout 2018 The bluest Monday of the year came and went on 15 January and according to recent reports by Instant Offices. Britons seem to be positive about their overall career and professional goals so far – with a pay rise and promotion being the second most popular New […]

Let your inbox meet the Cleanfox If you had to guess, how many emails do you receive every day? 50? 100? Is that taking into account the emails going to both your work and personal accounts? What about your Google account that you probably don’t even realise you own? The numbers add up, and for […]

Offices across the UK are so disorganised they are losing over one million hours a week searching for misplaced documents, that’s seven days a year for each worker and is costing UK businesses £20 million a year in wasted time. Research from office product specialists, Fellowes, also found that half of UK workers have documents that […]

Business Travel Show has joined forces with Corporate Traveller to host a two-part travel workshop dedicated to PAs. Due to take place on February 21-22 at Olympia London, the free workshop is part of a flexible one-day programme designed to take experienced company travel bookers, PAs, secretaries and office managers to the next level when […]