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The Blackberry Curve 8900

The Blackberry Curve 8900 is the thinnest and lightest full-QWERTY smartphone packed with the latest features.

The striking 480 x 360 - pixel screen offers crisp-on-the-go video, images, text, maps and more. With a sleek new twist on a classic style, the Blackberry Curve 8900 smartphone is an easy-to-use device that delivers expanded functionality and […]

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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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Find out more about remote working, whether you are about to embark on a remote working operation or are looking for new techniques and technology to improve your existing virtual business

Flexible working, incentives and recognition ‘needed’ to avoid absences

A new survey has revealed that one-fifth of employees have admitted calling in sick when they were not ill in the first place.

The survey, on Management in Practice, found that over 70 per cent of the respondents said they may take a day off spontaneously, with Friday being top of the chart.

A lack of motivation was blamed for the attitude portrayed by respondents, calling into question the use of incentives and recognition.

Furthermore, 57 per cent of respondents recognised that absent colleagues affects productivity, leaving fewer people in a company to get the job done and hitting morale hard.

Unauthorised absence is a major problem every day in the UK and costs the domestic economy billions of pounds.

The survey highlights that employers ought to be considering the introduction of flexible working policies to help deal with this problem.

Productivity wouldn’t be affected, whilst employees would be happy with an improved work-life balance, improving morale and decreasing the likelihood of staff absence.

Find out more about flexible working technology at the Interchange Group.

As featured on Motivaction.co.uk.