NR Mobile working news - Page Categories View All Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR Select Category Timeline Our Sector Sustainability Community Charity & CSR HR Jan 13th 2012 SMEs can boost their green credentials with video conferencing The environmental impact of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can be dramatically reduced through the use of video conferencing, an expert has said. With energy efficiency and the economy hot topics, Darren Clare, head of information ... Jan 09th 2012 Biggest free Wi-Fi zone in Europe could benefit mobile workers A free mobile zone, which is being established in London ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games, is expected to be the biggest in Europe and could benefit those who undertake mobile working. By creating the zone across Westminster and Kensington & ... Jan 09th 2012 Mobile working to total 1.3bn people by 2015 The number of people undertaking mobile working is to hit 1.3 billion by 2015, according to new research which has just been published. These figures, which have been released by International Data Forecast (IDC), are for the global population ... Jan 04th 2012 One careless employee could be a security risk As mobile working is on the increase, all it takes is one careless employee and to create a security risk, an expert in the industry has warned. Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of the Wick Hill Group, has suggested that many companies are continuing ... Dec 30th 2011 The benefits of flexible and mobile working Mobile and flexible working is an increasing trend, which many staff are making the most of, but an expert has come forward and said it also benefits businesses. Shirley Borrett, development director for the Telework Association is a great ... Dec 28th 2011 A victory for the work life balance The invention of the Blackberry and the smartphone may be heralded as a great technological innovation, but for many office workers it means work encroaching into home life. Being able to keep up to date with work can be useful, but not being ... Dec 20th 2011 Smartphones are useful for mobile working, but could cause stress Seen as a valuable tool for mobile working, smartphones are a common sight among many professionals, but could be adding extra stress levels among the countries employees. It is important to have a healthy work-life balance and flexible working ... Dec 19th 2011 2011’s start-ups could add £360m to economy Start-ups which launched in 2011 could add an extra £360 million to the UK economy, according to new research. Henley Business School (HBS) carried out the research into small businesses on behalf of T-Mobile and dubbed the companies they ... Dec 12th 2011 Brits dream more about boss than celebs Work is the number one theme which comes up in people’s dreams, according to a new poll of 2,000 people. Carried out by One Poll for Holiday Inn hotels, the survey found that one in three people dream about work when they are stressed, showing ... Dec 12th 2011 Flexible and mobile working boosts productivity Office workers believe they would be more productive if they were allowed flexible and mobile working options, according to a new study. In the survey by 2e2, 63 per cent of workers said that the traditional nine to five working day stifled their ... Dec 09th 2011 Supreme Court ruling significant for flexible workers Annual leave is something we are all entitled to, but the practicalities of working it out can become complicated when employees don’t conform to the traditional work routine. It is straight forward when people work nine ’til ... Dec 02nd 2011 Mobile and virtual offices offer the solution for start-ups Professionals have released some top-tips for small businesses, revealing that driving down costs and keeping mobile may be the key to success. The business advice, compiled by business blog Noobpreneur, highlights the impact of the internet ... Nov 30th 2011 Women are more tolerant as bosses than men Employees’ work-life balance has never been under so much pressure with some people undertaking mobile working and others hot desking, while some find there simply aren’t enough hours in the day. A new study has found that it ... Nov 25th 2011 Personal devices ‘improve workplace productivity’ A third of UK businesses have found that using personal devices in the workplace has boosted productivity among staff members. A survey by Citrix found that despite many firms encouraging staff to use devices such as smartphones and tablets ... Nov 21st 2011 Consortium to help boost flexible working A new consortium made up of the government, businesses and unions has been launched in a bid to enhance flexible working practices in the UK. The Anywhere Working group was launched by transport minister Norman Baker and aims to help employers ... Nov 17th 2011 Flexible working under threat from economic downturn More companies are having to insist staff work from the office, despite many employees finding mobile working aids productivity, due to the current economic situation. Companies are also finding it harder to compete as markets are so uncertain, ... Nov 07th 2011 Mobile working requires no extra red tape Allowing office staff to undertake mobile working requires no extra red tape for businesses, according to data gleaned from a Freedom of Information request by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Of the 218,100 ... Oct 31st 2011 Working in third places is on the rise. The latest trend in mobile working seems to be working in a third place which is neither home nor the office, according to research from ZZA Responsive User Environments. In the survey, which undertook in-depth interviews with 17,000 business ... Oct 28th 2011 Tech companies fail to engage with social media Despite a large number of tech companies using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, only 31 per cent of them are actually using them in a social manner, new research has found. As a way to engage with your audience these sites ... Oct 28th 2011 Roboboss keeps an eye on staff Just because the boss spends a lot of their time away from the office mobile working does not mean that they are not keeping an eye on their staff, as one employer in Texas has proved. Richard Garriott keeps the staff at his video game development ... Oct 25th 2011 Council staff embracing mobile working Stoke-on-Trent City Council is demonstrating how mobile working can cuts down on costs as part of new money-saving measures. The council is now closing offices at the weekends and allowing more staff to work from home during the week. It is ... Oct 21st 2011 UK businesses embracing tablets Businesses in the UK are embracing tablet computers with around one in five firms using the gadgets in the workplace. Data from Equanet highlights that rather than being a consumer-only product the devices are useful for businesses, especially ... Oct 19th 2011 College launch work scheme for Lancashire’s youth Blackburn College has launched a pilot scheme that intends to help young people into work. In conjunction with the Job Centre and local businesses, the college has set up work academies and hopes to give 16 – 24-year-olds better chances of obtaining ... Oct 19th 2011 45% of businesses cannot find right employees A survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has found that despite increasing unemployment, 45 per cent of businesses still find it difficult to recruit the correct person for a position. Figures released last week show that the number ... Oct 17th 2011 Family homes modified for home workers As the number of people working from home has increased by a fifth since 2008 the average family home has lost 11 square feet of living space in that time, according to research by LV=. More people working from home has led workspaces to crop up ... Oct 14th 2011 Third of people would consider emigrating for new job A new poll conducted by the Post Office has found that at least a third of young Britons would be happy to take a job overseas. Some 33 per cent of 18-34 year-olds said that they’d consider working abroad as they feel it could offer more opportunities ... Oct 14th 2011 Spare land could be new office plot Two pieces of disused land in Stoke-on-Trent could be used as sites for temporary office space, a new report suggests. Plans are currently in under scrutiny for a state of the art business district in Hanley, but consultants URS-Scott Wilson ... Oct 14th 2011 Youth unemployment big issue in East Anglia Young people are the hardest hit by unemployment in East Anglia according to new figures. Norwich saw a 12 per cent rise in people out of work compared to the same period last year. Currently there are 4,450 people without a job in the Norfolk city ... Oct 13th 2011 Brits put in 26 million hours overtime each day. Research by insurance company Aviva have discovered that workers in the UK contribute some 26 million hours in extra work each day. The report found out that six out of ten people work outside of their contracted hours, averaging 1.5 hours in ... Oct 13th 2011 Two-thirds of people want another job A survey conducted by recruitment agency Hays as found that two-thirds of people would happily move to a new job if they were able to. It also found that just four out of ten people are not looking for new work at present because they like their current ... Oct 07th 2011 Struggling parents reluctant to request flexible hours The work life balance is not adequate for six out of ten working parents with 54 per cent of them uneasy about requesting flexible conditions, as study by My Family Care has found. Parents who would like more flexibility in their working lives ... Oct 05th 2011 Keyboard germs could lead to cold and flu cases Office workers could be at risk from germs and bacteria lurking on their keyboards and work stations, especially as the cold and flu season begins. A new study by Viking collected swabs from hundreds of office workers taken from their office ... Sep 27th 2011 Mobile devices used most by British twenty-somethings The next generation in Britain should be well adept at mobile working if the findings of a recent survey are anything to go by. Out of college students and professionals from 14 countries, Cisco Connected Technology found those from the UK were ... Sep 26th 2011 Mobile working encouraged as part of National Work-Life Week Flexible and mobile working are being brought into focus this week with a series of events as part of National Work-Life Week. The charity Working Families has organised the week which includes a programme of webinars on subjects from communication ... Sep 23rd 2011 Boundaries between work and home life blurred in mobile working world Social media is a useful indicator to show how the lines between private and work lives are becoming more blurred for some, as a new survey shows that seven out of ten employees have ‘friended’ their bosses on Facebook. The Cisco ... Sep 19th 2011 Mobile working embraced by small and medium enterprises More small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are making use of mobile working with 93 per cent of directors saying it is a continuing or rising trend. In offices where there are fewer than 300 employees over a third of them work away from the office ... Sep 09th 2011 Majority of people who work from home put in extra hours at evenings and weekends Offices spaces certainly have their uses it seems as 81 per cent of people who work from home spend some of their personal time doing extra work at weekends or in the evenings. The survey conducted by SMEDiscounts also found that 56 per cent of ... Sep 08th 2011 Businesses to spend £2.3bn on video conferencing by 2016 By the year 2016 businesses will spend £2.3billion on video conferencing, the analyst company Ovum is predicting. This is turn may give rise to a whole new sector of management specialists who the larger organisations at least will employ ... Sep 07th 2011 Video Conferencing saves During the 2012 Olympics Video conferencing is just one way in which organisers of the London 2012 Olympics are suggesting businesses in London cut down on their use of public transport during the Games. With an influx of people into the capital and the expected extra ... Sep 06th 2011 A paperless office is the obvious answer to mobile working. Mobile working is leading to the evolution of a paperless office as more and more workers need access to their documents from a number of different places on a regular basis. Office staff are using more technology including programmes such ... Jul 26th 2011 More SMEs are adopting ‘mobile working strategies’ A greater number of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are adopting mobile working strategies, according to a new survey. The Business Journals revealed that 71 per cent of SMEs said that their employees used mobile technologies to work outside ... Jul 25th 2011 Workers take to cycles in response to high petrol prices Rising petrol prices and a shift in travel habits could be responsible for the recent surge in bike sales at Halfords. The company released its latest trading statement revealing that bicycle sales were up by 11.5 per cent in the 13 weeks up to ... Jul 22nd 2011 Employees realise ‘the benefits of cloud computing’ Mobile working could take off big time with the suggestion that employees in the UK have finally “woken up” to the opportunities presented by cloud technologies. The trade association Intellect said that employees have had ... Jul 19th 2011 Demos: Flexible working important in a sluggish economic environment Flexible working, which includes mobile working and working in virtual offices, is seen as an important way of coping in an economic environment characterised by a sluggish recovery, according to a new report. The think tank Demos revealed ... Jul 19th 2011 Digital marketers ‘need to focus’ on mobiles Mobile working digital marketers need to adapt and develop to the changing media landscape as more people start to increasingly rely on the internet on their mobile phones, according to a marketing and media expert. Rob Thurner, a mobile consultant ... Jul 12th 2011 Telstra pays employee for work-related injuries suffered at home Businesses that employ home-based staff may have to revise certain parts of their operations after Telstra was forced to pay legal and medical costs to an employee who suffered work-related injuries while working from home. Dale Hargreaves ... Jul 08th 2011 The bar of entry for cyber criminals is being lowered It is becoming increasingly easy for so-called fledgling cyber criminals to learn how to stage attacks on businesses and individual users, according to Symantec. There was an increase in the number of cyber-attacks because mechanisms like ... Jun 29th 2011 Google launches Mobilize for SMEs Google has launched a new mobile tool to help small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) create professional quality mobile sites or landing pages. Called Google Mobilize, the free tool provides SMEs with templates to create sites without ... Jun 28th 2011 Scottish Home Workers ‘can’t afford’ Commercial Property Scotland’s home-based workers are unable to move into commercial premises because of a lack of affordable options, according to a new survey. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) found that 42 per cent of home-based workers were ... Jun 28th 2011 Businesses ‘need to encourage’ employees to properly secure mobile devices Businesses that operate a flexible mobile working structure should warn their employees to take security of their technology devices seriously, according to Norton. This year marks a major campaign to boost education and awareness of the ... Jun 22nd 2011 Smartphones aiding a rise in flexible working Mobile working is on the up, according to Smart Gorillas, and it is all thanks to the increase in popularity of smartphones. Heather McLean, editor of online mobile news provide Smart Gorillas, said the power and agility of the devices helped ... Jun 21st 2011 Flexible working opportunities created through cloud computing The portability of cloud computing opens up opportunities for mobile working for businesses, according to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. The organisation suggested that the modern system, which involves using internet-based systems ... Jun 10th 2011 Data could be put at risk by people working from home The way which companies deal with mobile working has been criticised, as it could lead to a substantial risk to data security. Fasthosts Internet has said that business information security was being put at risk because employees were given ... Jun 08th 2011 Survey shows mobile workers not supported by IT Concerns have been raised over the provision of mobile working for staff in the UK after a survey revealed that IT provisions did not go far enough to support it. Research by Vanson Bourne, which was completed on behalf of IT performance company ... Jun 06th 2011 Flexible Working has Customer Service Benefits Mobile working has clear financial benefits for employers and workers, and can offer substantial customer service benefits, it has been claimed. The Telework Association, which promotes flexible working, has said that employees tend ... Jun 03rd 2011 Flexible working can reduce stress Mobile working can help to reduce stress and leave workers financially better off, it has been claimed. The Telework Association, which promotes mobile and flexible working, said that the method of work had obvious good points. Peter Thomson, ... May 25th 2011 Should the government promote mobile working to businesses? The government should be doing more to promote the benefits of flexible and mobile working to businesses as well as individuals, the Telework Association has said. The organisation suggested that mobile working was still seen by many companies ... May 23rd 2011 Mobile working: Most jobs can offer flexible working opportunities Most jobs can accommodate some aspect of mobile and flexible working, no matter how hands-on, it has been claimed. The Telework Association has said that many fears over the suitability of mobile working put forward by employers are “overplayed”. ... May 17th 2011 Mobile working changes could create uncertainty The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has criticised proposed government changes to employment rules which say that flexible working should be available for all employees. David Frost, director general of the BCC, said that “tinkering” ... May 03rd 2011 Employers should allow flexibility to accommodate workers’ “complex lifestyles” More employers need to allow for flexibility in the way their employees work, so they can work around their “complex lifestyles”, experts have said. Paul Roberts, of insurance company IHC, said employers need to employ a “firm ... « Older EntriesNewer Entries » (Or jump to page 1234 of 4) Employers should allow flexibility to accommodate workers’ “complex lifestyles”