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Working@Home: Keeping Secure
Blog However, even though employees sat comfortably, IT mangers were no doubt uncomfortable at the thought of the security issues that exist around working from home. To ease this discomfort, here are some top tips on how to be safe and secure while...
[May 20, 2008, 22:00]
Met Office: Home working will help save the planet
News Both the Met Office and the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs have advised businesses to encourage home working, saying this brings ecological as well as economic benefits. Speaking at the Workwise UK Conference in London on...
[May 23, 2008, 10:45]
UK economic woes encourage working from home
News More than half (55 percent) of employees are working from home more frequently since the financial crisis began, according to research commissioned by BT Business. The most widely cited financial saving associated with working from home is not...
[May 14, 2009, 10:19]
Tomorrow is National Working from Home Day
Blog is "National Working from Home Day", and is being busily promoted by its organisers, Workwise UK. Some Workwise UK members, such as BT, may obviously benefit from an increase in people working from home (or 'WFH' as it's known at CNET, not to be...
[May 14, 2008, 17:31]
The future according to Microsoft
News Whether it is working from home or working in the office, working on the move or working at home — and even playing at home if the time allows — Microsoft has the software for every aspect of life. In another, a mother working from home firefights...
[November 3, 2005, 9:45]
Flexible-working rights for parents extended
News From Monday, businesses will be required to consider flexible-working requests from more of their employees, a change in the law that is likely to boost home working. Legislation dating from 2003 allowed parents with children under the age of six...
[April 6, 2009, 17:19]
Keeping Home Workers In The Loop
Blog Working from home can have many advantages: save on start up costs, as you do not need premises; save time that would be spent on looking for suitable property; avoid becoming tied into long tenancy agreements; arrange work around family...
[September 26, 2008, 14:03]
Flexible working still frowned upon, say IT pros
News Working from home — or when out and about with the help of a laptop — may be a trend on the rise, but attitudes to flexible working are far more Victorian in the IT department, a survey of technology workers has found.
[June 26, 2008, 9:42]
Self-employed leading teleworking charge
News Working from home is on the rise in the UK, though it's still largely for the self-employed. As of spring 2005, 8 percent of the country's workers were defined as teleworkers — people who work primarily from home and use a computer and telephone...
[October 6, 2005, 10:30]
Businesses urged to favour IT over cars
News The RAC Foundation is urging more people to consider working from home to cut CO2 emissions, reduce congestion and save businesses money. The Foundation has been working with the Energy Saving Trust and WorkWise UK to encourage smarter working...
[October 27, 2006, 10:55]
Office surfers aren't slackers, says study
News A new study finds that employees may waste time surfing on the job, but they tend to make up for it by working from home in their off hours. Those people spent an average of 6.5 hours per week surfing at work while spending just 3.7 hours a week...
[February 5, 2003, 10:23]
New law could boost teleworking
News The Flexible Working (Procedural Requirements) Regulations 2002, taking effect on 6 April, requires companies to consider allowing parents with young children to change the hours they work, change the times when they are required to work or to...
[March 27, 2003, 10:18]
Managing a two-computer installation review
Reviews I like my little corporate notebook, and I take it with me nearly everywhere, but at home I much prefer working on my home-built PC, with its sweet dual-monitor setup and blazing speed. Like a lot of people, I have a desktop at home and another...
[June 21, 2005, 7:15]
Win a car in ZDNet.co.uk's Homebrew Challenge review
Reviews We're searching for the IT folks who round off the working day by going home, shutting the front door, and rolling their sleeves up to get stuck into their own pet tech project. Perhaps you've put in solid-state lighting in every room, or designed...
[November 8, 2007, 10:36]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Back in the office, and the RuCam is working splendidly. I can now stare out of my home office window while I'm in the office office, thus efficiently reverse-teleworking. At first, it refused to work with a network card, but as soon as I brave the...
[February 23, 2001, 16:21]
ID-card contracts allow suppliers to be searched
News However, the Home Office denied that the agreement would enable it to access the private premises of staff working for NIS contractors. The government will be able search the premises of companies working on the National Identity Scheme under the...
[December 10, 2008, 7:14]
Tech giants get together for home networking
News The alliance of 18 major companies from the consumer-electronics, personal computer and mobile devices industries -- called the Digital Home Working Group -- will announce Tuesday in San Francisco which networking standards it plans to support...
[June 19, 2003, 10:58]
Benefits of breaking free from a desk
Blog UK workers valued the increased time that working from home would allow them to spend with their family the most. Health and wellbeing were also important home working considerations, according to the workers surveyed.
[February 20, 2008, 4:50]
FCC rule change hits Bluetooth
News The proposal, by the Home RF Working Group, to make 3MHz and 5MHz channels for frequency hopping radios legal would allow FH systems to achieve greater than 10Mbps data rates. The root of the rule change is in the Home RF Working Group's ambition...
[October 5, 1999, 9:44]
Intel joins with Proxim to develop wireless networking
News The two companies are currently working together within the Home RF alliance to develop wireless home networking products based on the SWAP, or shared wireless access protocol, specification. "Intel's technology relationship with Proxim is an...
[April 29, 1999, 9:40]
