1. Every dollar spent on video conferencing is money well-spent The proliferation of employees working at home combined with headsets and webcams appearing at nearly every desk gives the management of most companies the belief that they are set up for video...

    Is the UK different to the rest of Europe? There would seem to be very little difference in the way that people across most of Europe are living their lives under COVID.  Several countries are more insistent on the use of face masks outdoors as well as indoors but...

    Is encouraging employees back to their offices another error of judgement? There is a very good chance that the UK government are about to embark on another huge mistake by trying to persuade employees back to work in what may be a futile attempt to revive...

    Are things being done differently in other European countries? A French friend who lives in the UK has just returned from a holiday in Italy and I was interested to hear her views on why infections in Europe were rising at a far faster rate than in the UK. ...

  Surveys clearly show that employees want to continue working remotely A recent study by Cardiff University and the University of Southampton, said 88% of employees who worked at home during lockdown would like to continue doing so in some capacity, with 47%...

 A number of people have told me that remote working is the enemy of creativity and that it just isn’t a practical way of working in the creative industries.  I strongly disagree.Creativity and problem solving tend to be more effective in groups where...

 While for many years now it’s been no secret that lots of office based jobs could be carried out remotely, the COVID-19 crisis has turned that potential into reality for many businesses worldwide.  Offices full of endless rows of desks and packed contact...

 As they say, ‘other brands of video conferencing software are available’, so why has ‘to Zoom’ become a verb?  Zoom of course must be loving it, share price rocketing, users increasing exponentially and achieving what very few with the exception of Mr...

 The incidence of home working is increasing rapidlyThe COVID-19 epidemic has transformed remote working.  Companies faced with the choice of stopping work or sending employees home with their laptops chose the latter.  The epidemic caused a switch from...

 Around 15 years ago, I ran a home working pilot for a major company.  Office space was tight and it was one of the alternatives investigated to continue to achieve our objectives without increasing office rental bills.  Line speeds were poor and broadband...