If lockdown restrictions mean you have employees working from home, you could be putting the safety of your business at risk. Cyber security experts are warning of the dangers caused by employees working remotely – is your work-from-home workforce putting your business security at risk?
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Life in the finance department can be frustrating at the best of times – sending invoices, chasing customer payments, keeping on top of the payroll and, of course, wading through the reams of receipts.
The advent of e-receipts has made life a lot easier though, and not just for the finance department, they can open the door to a whole new level of personalised customer marketing and engagement.
At ConferenceCall.co.uk, we want to make teleconferencing as easy as it can be. As part of our commitment to being the UK’s simplest conference call service, we introduced ConferenceCall.co.uk Wallet Card – a simple way to keep all your dial-in numbers, PIN and function keys to hand at all times.
And now we’ve gone one better by throwing NFC technology into the mix – and we’re the world’s first conference call provider to offer this service.
If you’re thinking of starting up a new business, you’ll quickly realise how difficult a balancing act it is to stick to a budget while making sure you have all the tools to ensure you can properly do your job.
The dizzying amount of business tech available means you could quite easily blow all your money on any number of hands-free add-ons and pentium-powered peripheries.
So, if you’re just starting out, or you’re looking to upgrade your systems, here are our seven top business tech tips…
More of us are working from home than ever before – the latest estimates show that a third of UK workers now do so exclusively from home.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show this increase”can be attributed to the formal announcement of national lockdowns in England and mainland Scotland in early January 2021″.
Technology has played a massive part in the work-from-home boom – businesses have had to act swiftly to a remote-first work force to keep things going. If you need some help with working from home, here are seven tools you shouldn’t be without…
There are just two weeks to go until Christmas, which means 14 shopping days left, including Christmas Eve – even fewer if you’re you plan to shop online, as you’ll have to factor in extra time to process and deliver your order. Make sure you don’t miss the last postage dates.
If you’re shopping online, you’ll also have to factor in the added risk – although secure website and payment technology is always improving, hackers and fraudsters are always finding more devious ways to defraud people, and so online fraud is still a massive problem.
So, to help ensure you stay safe as you shop online at Christmas, Sainsbury’s Bank has produced this informative infographic…
After the year we’ve had, it’s likely most of us will need a little extra money for the holidays this year.
If you could do with some extra cash, it could be worth considering your own seasonal start-up.
Here are some ideas for how you could make some extra festive cash with your own Christmas business.
2020 has been a tough year for all of us, and if you’ve been placed on furlough during lockdowns or you’ve had the misfortune of losing your job – even if you’ve just had enough of everything want to work for yourself – it might be worth considering starting up your own venture.
This could either be by doing your current job on a freelance basis or starting up your own new business.
Starting out can be costly though, in terms of both time and money, so it’s often a good idea to kick things off by working from home – you may even have no choice but to do so in the current climate.
But what businesses work well when started from home? Here are our top home business start up ideas.
The dust has barely settled on the August Bank Holiday, but the kids are back in school, the nights are drawing in and it’s getting noticeably colder. It got so nippy at the end of August that a poll run by our friends over at UKPower found that almost half of householders had already put the heating on.
We don’t usually ask this question until at least September, but have you put the heating on yet? ?
— UKPower (@ukpower) August 28, 2020
And if people are back in the office, you can bet that the thermostat will be whacked in an attempt to keep temperatures near-tropical as staff go about their work – and when the thermostat rises, your business energy bills won’t be far behind.
So here are some top tips to to help keep utility bills down as the outside temperature drops…