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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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The cost-saving and environment benefits of remote working have been emphasised by BT.
Nearly ten per cent of BT’s 100,000 employees permanently work from home, with more than 70,000 capable of doing so.
According to a BT official, flexible working saves the company £57 million a year in accommodation and 1.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, with the view being that flexible workers are more productive.
According to BT, businesses can both reduce costs and increase productivity levels by embracing flexible working schemes.
BT Workstyle director David Dunbar claimed staff and their employers can benefit from non-traditional working arrangements, meaning HR departments should be willing to promote their uptake.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended a £237m deal with BT to expand and support its VoIP network.
Under the terms of the contract extension, BT Global Services will provide maintenance and new connections to the single network that carries the DWP’s voice and data traffic.
BT has launched its fibre-optic broadband service for businesses, promising download speeds of up to 40Mbps with prices starting at £30 per month.
BT Business Total Broadband Fibre offers a ‘fast lane’ to give business traffic the right of way at busy times, which will help employees in the office, but significantly help remote and home workers as well.
According to BT, flexible working at firms is leading to the wider use of remote conferencing systems, as well as an increase in wearing pyjamas rather than office attire.
The survey by BT Conferencing revealed that the flexible working opportunities offered by audio conferencing over the phone, and the fact that colleagues can’t see each other, has led to 68% of users admitting they had dialled into a conference call wearing their pyjamas.
