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Online shopping to account for 53% by 2028
Monday 15th Jul 2019Online shopping will account for more than 50 per cent of retail sales (up from 19% currently) in the next ten years according to a new report, The Digital Tipping Point. Commissioned by law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD), the report reveals...Read More...
Nearly 1/3 organisations lose data due to data centre outages
Friday 28th Jun 2019Nearly one-third of organisations (30%) said they had lost data as a result of a data centre outage in the past year, while more than four in ten (42%) said they had experienced a period of downtime. That’s according to a new survey conducted b...Read More...
61% potential online customers deterred by lack of imagery
Wednesday 26th Jun 2019Online retailers are losing out on additional revenue by not utilising simple methods to capture sales from potential customers, new research has revealed. A survey of 1,213 UK adults carried out by leading digital marketing agency, Market...Read More...
87% businesses plan to expand warehouse footprint
Wednesday 19th Jun 2019Zebra Technologies Corporation has announced the results of its 2024 Warehousing Vision Study, analysing IT and operations decision makers’ current and planned strategies for modernizing their warehouses, distribution centres and fulfilment cen...Read More...
Businesses can save up to £7000 by going green
Tuesday 18th Jun 2019When running a more sustainable business, choosing to work with green-minded suppliers is a big step in the right direction. According to Carbon Trust, the average small business could save up to £7000 simply by improving their energy efficienc...Read More...
Kyocera reveals only 61% UK businesses are mostly digital
Wednesday 12th Jun 2019Organisations across Europe are moving evermore into a digital age, but the UK is losing ground in its adaptation of digital documentation, Kyocera’s Business Digitalisation in Europe Outlook 2019 has found. The research provides an in-d...Read More...MPU1
The rise of presenteeism in the workplace
Tuesday 11th Jun 2019Presenteeism in the UK has more than tripled since 2010, with 86 per cent of people observing it in the workplace last year compared to 26 per cent just under a decade ago. In light of 1 in 5 people ignoring their doctor's advice...Read More...
The true cost of your commute
Monday 10th Jun 2019For UK workers, commuting time has increased by 18 hours compared to a decade ago, according to the TUC. A study by Totaljobs shows the average worker is set to spend a whopping £135,000 on their commute by the time they ret...Read More...
The top 10 countries that defy the 9 to 5
Friday 7th Jun 2019TUC has recently announced with the advances in technology, the possibility of a four-day workweek in the UK is likely to happen by 2100. With this in mind, Instant Offices looks into the top ten countries like Germany, Norway, Sweden ...Read More...
Plastic straws to be banned next year to help tackle plastic pollution
Friday 24th May 2019Plastics straws, stirrers, and cotton buds are to be banned in England from April next year in a move campaigners have welcomed but warned will “only scratch the surface” in tackling the damage that non-degradable waste is doing...Read More...
Out of town parks transforming the retail experience
Tuesday 21st May 2019Over the years, the UK out of town retail parks have been offering investors an attractive way of connecting the trends that are transforming the high street. Bidwells’ latest analysis indicates retail availability in the Cambridge-Oxford ...Read More...
Developing sustainable retail brands with employee engagement
Tuesday 21st May 2019When it comes to sustainability, some brands are way ahead of the game. Others, however, are certainly falling behind. There is so much potential for brands who embrace a more sustainable outlook to both appeals to a wider audience and benefit from c...Read More...MPU 2
Why standing makes meetings more productive
Friday 10th May 2019The negative effects of sitting down for long periods has become common knowledge in offices over recent years. To counter concerns, ergonomic changes by HR professionals and office managers have led ...Read More...
IT employment makes up nearly 1 in 10 of all UK jobs
Thursday 9th May 2019Employers across the UK posted job openings for more than 162,000 core IT positions in Q1 2019, according to an analysis by CompTIA, the trade association for the global technology industry. IT positions accounted for 9 per cent of all UK job p...Read More...
Richmond best London borough for career driven women
Tuesday 7th May 2019The latest research by Cuckooz Nest, a flexible workspace with integrated creche facilities, has looked at where across the capital is home to the highest proportion of women in work and what professions are leading the drive. Data from ...Read More...
55% businesses still use unencrypted removable devices
Friday 3rd May 2019Unencrypted USB devices are still widely used by businesses despite the fact that unsecured data could lead to GDPR fines. New research, conducted by global security company ESET, and Kingston Technology, shows that 55 per cent of business don’...Read More...
How to recognise work addiction in the workplace
Thursday 2nd May 2019As technology makes it increasingly easy to push beyond the 9-5, Lucinda Pullinger, Global Head of HR at Instant Offices explores how employees and business owners alike can recognise the difference between committed working habits and work...Read More...
A year since GDPR: Half of UK businesses still can’t manage data
Tuesday 30th Apr 2019Splunk Inc. has released research that shows organisations are ignoring potentially valuable data and don’t have the resources they need to take advantage of it. The research reveals that although business executives recognise the value of...Read More...MPU 3
Boring isn’t an option: adding flair to your office
Wednesday 24th Apr 2019When you think of what the office might be like at an accountancy firm or insurance company, your first thought may be less than inspiring with very little excitement. But the truth is, those who take office design seriously don’t follow this a...Read More...
Optimising the print estate through data analysis and reporting
Wednesday 24th Apr 2019We are creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, and as the volume of data increases so do the complexities of using that data for reporting. Response times and granularity can both be impacted as systems struggle to process large quanti...Read More...