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Interesting stories on remote working from aroud the web.
Vaillant, a leading manufacturer of gas and solid fuel domestic heating appliance boilers, called for Interchange’s help to install the latest GPRS mobile technology to enhance and develop its service and support business even further.
The solution helped out the company’s national service organisation Heatcall, which provides after sales support through it team of 100 engineers.
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The toll of the daily commute - both physically and psychologically - is chronicled in Times Online. Commuters suffer more headaches, general aches and pains and flu, research confirms, and for most people being crammed into a train with strangers or stuck in a traffic jam are uncomfortable, stressful experiences.
So what can we do about it? Taking control of your life, valuing your well-being and the work-life balance are all things that make us happier. Ultimately, we’re told, the best thing you can do is to avoid commuting in the rush hour. Flexible working is one way of achieving these goals and coping with life in our overcrowded cities.
British entrepreneurs are clocking up 50 hours every week, according to a survey into the work life-balance culture of Britain’s small business managers by Bank of Scotland Business Banking.
And it’s no surprise that the increased work burden is having a negative effect on stress levels with 71 per cent of small business owners questioned saying they feel stressed running their own business, compared to only half last year.
Our struggling economy is throwing businesses into a bit of a spin where remote working is concerned. On the one hand, according to Accountancy Age magazine, it seems to be doing something positive and flexible working is gaining ground – with improved technology and an awareness of the tangible commercial benefits of working remotely said to be partly responsible.
But before we get too excited about all of us enjoying a better work life balance, apparently this ideal may not last very long as managers start to panic that they may be losing control of their remote workers. Continue reading…
The tough economic climate is hitting smaller firms where it hurts. No longer able to meet the costs of business premises, many of them are considering moving to home working. That was the conclusion of a poll by O2, reported in The Telegraph.
They talked to 500 firms and 60 per cent of them said they are seriously thinking of giving up their offices and working remotely. More than one in 10 had already taken the step of not renewing a business lease, citing better and faster technology as a secondary reason for the decision.
We are with Simon Devonshire, head of business marketing at O2 on this. He said, “Getting rid of the office relieves many small businesses of a major overhead very quickly and shows a rapid response to current economic pressures.”
It’s hardly news to us at i-working, but, according to the Institute of Risk Management, customers are revolutionising the way they work by running virtual offices. According to a recent study, 40 per cent of virtual office customers are in banking and finance, with the business sector trailing behind at just 16 per cent.
Another report predicts that virtual working practices from the USA will affect us as we learn from their wide experience – apparently 31 per cent of Americans are part of a virtual management structure and ninety one per cent say that virtual working will save companies considerable time and expense.
