Tech issues aren’t letting workers make the most of working from home
Remote SMB employees could be far more productive if they were provided with superior technology, a new report from Ricoh Europe states. The company polled more than 600 office workers and found that they were struggling with productivity, morale and the ability to serve their customers properly – all because their tools are sub-par. The end of the pandemic may …
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Remote working has pushed SMB employees to the brink of burnout
Remote working may have provided a means of keeping businesses afloat during the pandemic, but it is also taking its toll on the mental health of employees. This is according to a new report from 8×8, which argues that remote workers have been pushed to brink of burnout by Covid-19. Polling more than 1,000 small and medium-sized business employees for …
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HMRC under fire for multiple serious personal data mishaps
The UK taxation body, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs department (HMRC), has reported 11 “serious” personal data incidents to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in 2020. According to litigation practice Griffin Law, the incidents affected a total of 23,173 people and further investigation is warranted. The biggest incident by volume occurred in May this year, when National Insurance number letters …
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Data holds the key to adapting to, and eventually overcoming, Covid-19
Data has been in the spotlight this year, but mostly for the wrong reasons. We’ve been glued to our televisions, laptops and newspapers as we’re bombarded with information and statistics about Covid-19; the number of cases, the scale of the economic downturn, the morbidity rate. We’re more interested in data now than, perhaps, we ever have been before, and it …
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Cybercrime is now a trillion-dollar cost to the global economy
Cybercrime is now a trillion-dollar cost to the global economy, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm McAfee. The Hidden Costs of Cybercrime report states that costs have risen 50 percent, compared to 2018 when they were estimated at $600 billion. Further, many of the impacts of cybercrime, albeit significant, remain unseen. Losing money and intellectual property remain the …
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Helping established tech businesses to grow
The UK tech sector is vital to UK jobs and growth. It contributes around £150bn to the economy and employs 2.9m. Many small but growing tech firms are playing a vital role in the economic recovery from Covid-19. But the sector’s small and medium-sized firms can’t always access the finance they need. We talk to Dominic Buch, co-founder of SME …
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The smart building cleaning vision
It’s hard to predict the long-term impact that Covid-19 will have on working practices in Europe and the knock-on implications for commercial real estate and workspaces. Dramatic reports about the demise of the traditional office are too simplistic. The longer the pandemic lasts, and with lockdown restrictions being re-imposed throughout Europe and the wider world, both employers and employees are …
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How cloud can help accountants go paperless?
We organize and store our most important documents in the form of paper. Paper documents have been around since the inception of accounting. But this doesn’t mean that it is the best way to deal with data. Complete dependency on paper exposes firms to various complications related to employee productivity and document storage cost. The desire for a paperless accounting …
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Cloud native versus hybrid infrastructure
Businesses were forced to react quickly and adapt to both working practices and infrastructure in the wake of government enforced lockdowns, restricted travel and market uncertainties. The dramatic shift to mass remote working was a change some companies found harder than others. In fact, according to some recent research from Riverbed, 69 percent of business decision makers were not completely …
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Many businesses upped their security and IT spend during pandemic
To ensure they can continue to operate at full capacity, large organizations have shifted their attention to enhancing security and improving remote collaboration. This is according to a new report from PwC and Qualtrics, based on a poll of 200 CIOs, CTOs and IT senior decision-makers, which states that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a key driver of accelerated transformation. …
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