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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Newcastle demonstrates teleworking's benefits
News The council revenue costs for home working at about £1,060 per person per annum, while annual accommodation costs in an office are between £1,140-£1,507 depending on the location. Newcastle has also changed the working arrangements for staff in the...
[February 23, 2006, 16:55]
Teleworking: What you can learn from Nationwide
News Home and mobile working was adopted as an important way of extending staff work patterns. But what do home workers and their managers think of the new online ways of working? The surveys showed that some managers were too controlling of people...
[October 5, 2005, 12:15]
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]
Implementing A Flexible Working Plan
Blog There are already around 3.5 million people already working from home in the UK and this was expected to double by 2012. After Gordon Brown recently announced his work-life balance agenda, flexible working will soon be widely available to as many...
[May 29, 2008, 10:08]
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]
UK Broadband plans 'portable' service
News This won't give the user the full mobility that is possible with 3G, for example, but it will support remote working away from the office or home. UK Broadband, which launched the first phase of its high-speed wireless service in the Thames Valley...
[May 7, 2004, 16:10]
Companies failing to support home workers
News Home working is on the rise as communications technologies improve and employees seek as better work/life balance," Ridgeway said. As such people working from home need to be treated the same as those who work from the office with access to support...
[September 15, 2005, 15:55]
Teleworking 'is good for your health'
News Drawbacks for teleworking included concern at increased working hours, and home-based teleworkers felt isolated from "social and professional interaction in the workplace" which, they said, can be demotivating and depressing.
[October 14, 2002, 18:17]
Wireless 'piggybacking' threatens remote workers
News The finding highlights the potential security pitfalls associated with working from home, coinciding as it does with another survey, from research firm Point Topic, which suggests that 16 percent of UK Internet users perform work-related tasks...
[August 29, 2006, 12:50]
