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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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There are lots of reasons to work from home and it’s not just about staying in your pyjamas all day watching daytime television.
Technology has enabled more and more jobs to be carried out anywhere, with this being particularly beneficial to scientists.
New research indicates small businesses that abandon flexible working, do so at their peril.
A study of more than 1000 small and medium-sized enterprises suggests that mobile working enables business success. However, less than 40 per cent of small businesses are equipped for mobile working. There is a real risk that businesses will steer away from flexible working during the economic downturn.
The Financial Times is cutting staffing costs by offering employees the chance to work fewer hours over the summer, including a three-day working week option.
The FT has launched the new scheme offering flexible working options as part of the plan to ride out the worst of the media downturn.
B&Q has been a long-time advocate of flexible working, as well as a diverse workforce, and is a finalist in the Innovation of Flexible Working category. A quarter of the workforce is over the age of 50, with a similar number under 25. These groups are identified as most in need of flexible working arrangements.
B&Q has introduced policies such as term-time contracts for parents and grandparents, an online job share register and the facility for older workers to reduce their hours and draw final-salary pensions at the same time.
Parenting charities have hit back at business owners who want to delay the legal right to request flexible working to parents with children under 16.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is concerned that the new law will harm small firms by making them unable to retain or employ extra staff and are urging the government to hold off passing it. However, parents have welcomed the legislation and have told the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI) that they want to work flexibly.
