Research from Hitachi Capital Business Finance reveals that big and small businesses are moving in opposite directions, with smaller enterprises opting to stay at home and seeing more business benefits in home and hybrid working models going forward. New research conducted the week that Covid restrictions ended reveals that 58% of people that work for […]
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Small businesses prefer home and hybrid working
Homeworking in the UK – 5 Key Learnings from the ONS Report
The Office for National Statistics has released its findings into homeworking trends in the UK over the past 12 months. We hear from a selection of industry experts, consultants, and authors about the five key learnings from this latest report, and what this means for businesses battling to recover from the effects of a global […]
Homeworkers in sheds and outbuildings urged to protect their possessions
As millions of UK residents continue to work from home, Aviva is urging people to take extra care of their possessions when using summerhouses, outbuildings or sheds as workspaces. ONS data suggests around 13 million UK people became home-workers last year as a result of the pandemicย and sales of sheds and summerhouses have been rising […]
Colour can help create a productive home-working environment
By James Morton Colour can have a big impact on how we feel, and including the right colours in a home working environment can help you focus and boost creativity. How to use colour in your home office Blue – The use of blue in interior design has been found to create a sense of […]
Top Tips: Get the best out of your working day at home
The largely unprecedented and uncertain nature of recent events has led to a significant shift in lifestyle for many, with the vast majority of office workers now working from home. With this in mind, flexible office specialist Workthere has put together some top tips on how to get the best out of your working day […]
Coronavirus: Two thirds think working from home is here to stay
65 per cent of UK office workers currently working from home due to the virus outbreak believe logging on remotely from home will become more common once the Coronavirus crisis abates. Citrix and OnePoll carried out a survey of 1,000 UK office workers between 23rdย โ 26thย March 2020, with the research also taking place in Germany, […]
Coronavirus: It’s time to turn home working into a positive
Working from home is now the new normal for most of us, and while this is giving many organisation’s a major headache, Yves Hiernaux, CEO of time tracking experts Beebole, has urged decision makers not to see remote working as the enemy… In recent years, there has been a huge spike in the number of […]
Working from home is young workersโ top priority
An investigation into working habits has revealed what encourages employee retention in younger workers. The study by ReportLinker showed that 66% of older workers strongly agreed that they were highly committed to their place of work, compared to only 40% of Millennials who somewhat agreed as statistics showed the increased likelihood of 25-34 year olds […]