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We’re in a horribly horrible situation. Coronavirus is hurting each and every one of us. By now we all have stories, either of lost loved ones or of loved ones lost – those living on their own and battling the pandemic alone.

So what to do? The answer has to be: not nothing!

When this chapter in history finally…

The New Home Based Business Package: Good or Bad for Commercial Office Space?

On Friday the 15th of August new measures were announced to encourage burgeoning home based business in the UK. The announcement was made at a summit attended by the Prime Minister, David Cameron.

There are already 2.9m home based small businesses contributing £300 billion a year to the economy and the number is growing. The estimation is that around 70% of new businesses start off in the home.…

Home Desk to Office: when it’s time to make the move

Working from home has always been the best and, sometimes, the only way to get your start-up going. With the rise in technology and on-the-go communications, it is now an even more effective working method than ever before. But, as your business grows and circumstances change, it might be time to start thinking of doing the move into an office.

Here are some ways you know it’s time to make the…

Planning on hiring a hotshot kid straight out of college? Here’s a checklist for you: Make sure she can tweet or update Facebook while on the clock. Let her get work email on whatever device she wants. Allow her to work from home on her own schedule, even though she’s unlikely to really think it makes her more productive. And by the way, an increasing number of your employees don’t think they need to be in the office either.

These are all the results of a Cisco survey of 2,800 college students and young professionals worldwide. The survey had a number of questions that make good cocktail party trivia (one-third of students think the Internet is as important as food, air and water) and are rather less impressive the more you consider them (the vast majority, after all, don’t believe that for a moment).

Where the study really gets interesting is when it comes to students’ workplace expectations — or rather, the expectation that they won’t be in the workplace. More than 60% say they have a right — not just a desire, but aright — to work from home on a flexible schedule. Some 70% say coming into the office regularly is unnecessary. That’s despite the fact that only a quarter of students are willing to say working from home makes them more productive.

They have some backup, at least — 69% of all workers say the office is unnecessary, a figure that has grown from 60% last year.