The government has announced it is to release £400 million worth of investment to boost high-speed broadband in the UK – and that’s expected to unlock a further £1 billion of private sector investment, making life infinitely easier for telecommuters and kick-starting a work from home revolution.
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Are you among the 21 million people in the UK that has been hit by phone scams? A new report from YouGov and Equifax has revealed a third of the…
Japanese tech giant, Softbank, is to plough more of its millions into UK tech – following last year’s acquisition of ARM Holdings, it’s now backing Improbable, a London-based virtual reality…
Unless you’ve (probably wisely) conducted your own media blackout in the run up to June’s general election, you’ll no doubt have heard Theresa May’s countless claims that what the UK needs right now is ‘strong and stable’ leadership – strong and stable leadership that she asserts only she and her party can provide.
And she’s right, the UK is in need of strong and stable leadership – no-one knows how Brexit will eventually play out, whether it will ultimately be good or bad for the UK, or what affect it will have on jobs, industry, and our everyday lives.
The snap general election means we don’t even know who’ll be running the country to lead those Brexit negotiations. And these factors, coupled some serious drum-banging and jingoism from politicians and citizens alike, means the UK is a divided nation.
So ‘strong and stable’ leadership is what’s needed, but it’s anyone’s guess which party can best provide it. And if you’re letting all the political posturing and Brexit bandwagoning affect your business decisions, you could be putting your company and its employees in jeopardy.
Napoleon Bonaparte once famously described the UK as a ‘nation of shopkeepers’, and, while that description might not quite hold up some 200 years later, it’s certainly true that the UK is a nation of small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
And the success of each SME is essential to the prosperity of the UK economy, including yours.
It’s not an overall success story though, and the UK may actually have too many small businesses, here’s why…
If you work in an office you’re not much of a man, or at least your career isn’t very manly.
Even if you’ve no less than five days’ worth of stubble on your face at all times, bath in Acqua Di Parma, and swill your mouth with single malt every morning, office work just isn’t man’s work..
That is unless you happen to work as an intelligence analyst, in which case you’ll be considered quite manly, but even then you’ll be nowhere near as manly as a marine engineer, which is the most manly job there is. Apparently.
Confused? Read on…
It might surprise you to learn that marketing is the UK’s hardest working industry, especially if you know anyone who does digital marketing for a living.
If you’re in marketing yourself, though, you’re more likely to spend more time checking and sending emails when than those in other industries. And being ‘always on’ isn’t good for you or your productivity.
So here’s why you need to take a break from your marketing job.
Cyber crime is on the up – the total costs of cyber attacks reached an estimated $400 billion in 2015, according to figures from Lloyds Banking Group, and this figure is expected to quadruple to a staggering $2.1 trillion by 2019.
And although it’s the attacks on larger companies that make all the headlines, all businesses are at risk, as research from Microsoft has found a fifth (20%) of SMEs have been targeted by cyber criminals.
2016 was a landmark year for cyber security as two of the biggest hacks in history were revealed, with internet giant Yahoo at the centre of both after suffering a double strike that saw more than a billion email accounts compromised.
Here are the biggest cyber attacks of 2016…
The proposed $4.8 billion sale of American search and tech giant Yahoo to telecoms firm Verizon has been put on hold following a series of high-profile data security breaches that saw more than 1 billion email accounts compromised.
How would you feel about leaving the car at home and strapping yourself into a jetpack to tackle the daily commute?
It’s a scenario straight from science fiction, but one a Chinese tech firm is looking to make science fact in the not-too-distant future – so could the Martin Jetpack really change the face of commuting forever?