Employees have not rushed back to workplaces in the weeks following Freedom Day, with the number of staff in the office remaining stagnant at 11.7% in July. That’s why IT support specialists, ramsac, have compiled the ultimate guide to businesses safely re-opening their doors to staff while supporting them if they choose to work between the office and from home. Here’s a look at two of the potential difficulties all businesses need to consider, and how to successfully navigate them. Improving home internet speeds: Internet speeds have become one of the most important factors in a home office. Unfortunately, not…
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Professional services provider, The Uncommon Practice, has announced new growth with the expansion of its offer to include an accounting division under the name of The Uncommon Accountants. The new structure sees the business delivering on its ambitions to provide fully integrated professional services support for SME owner-managed businesses, with the promise of saving clients both time and money. Currently, of the £60billion plus a year spent by SMEs on professional services, research shows that more than £12billion is wasted on unnecessary or bad advice. The Uncommon Practice business model seeks to change this through a full-service offering, with one…
Nadav Shraibom is the Scientific Founder at Medovie, a skincare company for people suffering with chronic skin conditions. Nadav Shraibom is an expert on all things skin. Hailing from his home of Israel, his journey into the world of skincare began in San Francisco, where he studied Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Fuelled by his newfound passion, as well as his personal encounters with skin problems at university, Nadav decided to focus his efforts on developing remedies to help relieve those who also suffer from skin issues, such as psoriasis and eczema. “As someone who has suffered themselves, I understand exactly…
Thousands of SMEs have had to take out government backed loans during COVID to enable their businesses to continue. Now some of these businesses find themselves unable to repay these loans due to lack of cashflow. Is there anything that these companies can do to ameliorate their position and continue to trade and what threats may they face from their lenders? An initial step that a company might want to consider is to negotiate time to pay arrangements with its lender and any other relevant creditors. However, if this is not possible, then if the company’s underlying business is still…
Action Net Zero, the community interest company with the mission to help the city of Bristol embrace a greener future, has backed a call to encourage Amazon-backed car company Rivian to set up shop in the South West. The USA based company specialises in making electric cars including larger SUVs (sports utility vehicles) and is apparently looking for a large UK or European base from which to manufacture its vehicles. Rumour has it that the company is considering a large site close to J23 of the M5 in Somerset and, were it to make a decision to come to the…
A group of three friends have come together to form Beyond Six, a new community interest company. They aim to help at least 500 people improve their mental health and wellbeing being through group walks, events and retreats in nature over the next year. To raise fund to meet this goal, Lauren Wheeler, 28 from Bicester in Oxfordshire, Rory Parsons, 37 from Banstead in Surrey and Deon Barrett, 30 from Addlestone in Surrey are taking part in the Snowdon Six Ways Challenge – climbing all six routes up and down Mount Snowden on 16 and 17th September 2021. Together they will…
Suicide is that horrendous issue that we all know happens in the world, somewhere and to someone, but perhaps, fortunately for most, it’s a tragedy that doesn’t affect us directly. This year the international theme for Suicide Prevention Day is ‘Creating Hope Through Action’ and in our post pandemic world, it feels as though the theme couldn’t resonate more. We all have our part to play to spot the signs and take action to help those who are suffering from suicidal thoughts. Every life is precious, and each and every one of us can make a difference in the fight…
New data from Klarna, the leading global retail bank, payments, and shopping service, has revealed 47% of SME leaders in London have yet to recover from the pandemic. London’s SME business leaders experienced a negative impact to their mental health from the strain of the pandemic Half of London’s SMEs say they have yet to recover from the economic fallout of Covid-19 1 in 5 SME business leaders in London are lacking confidence for their business’s prospects over the next 2 years Research comes as Klarna launches £3mn SME support package With small businesses having to close their doors to customers due…
A Zero Trust security system is an approach to the design and implementation of information security systems that assume every user, device or application accessing an IT system is untrusted and must be treated with the same level of scrutiny. The traditional approach to computer security has long been based on perimeter defences being designed based on threat intelligence about the most likely attackers targeting a network or organization. These approaches have begun to struggle when faced with new types of attacks and evolutions in the threat landscape. Perimeter-based defences, such as firewalls or signature-based antivirus software are no longer…
As the situation in Afghanistan continues to cause concern across the world, supporting Afghan refugees, and particularly any unaccompanied children, has never been more urgent according to one of the UK’s leading fostering agencies Banya. The UK Government has agreed to resettle 20,000 Afghan refugees over the next few years however many organisations who already work with refugees feel the support is too little. Chido Poe, managing director of leading UK fostering agency, Banya, said: “I have been witnessing what is happening in Afghanistan from a place of deep sadness. Thousands of people are trying to flee in a desperate…