Remote Access - working from outside the office?

Home working isn't just convenient for employees; it can make real sense for businesses too. UK businesses are now obliged to consider flexible working arrangements for parents. However, they shouldn't look on practices like...

A report commissioned by Microsoft over the impact of Remote Working found out that the proportion of firms that allow their employees to work outside the office (either teleworking or homeworking) had dropped substantially from...

Health and Safety Bodies will certainly frown at this report; Research compiled by none other than Microsoft shows that cases of Repetitive Stress Injuries have shot up by more than 30 percent in 2007 costing UK businesses north...

ITProPortal's Ben Chai chats again with David Hobson, the Managing Director and Founder of Global Secure Systems; he shares his thoughts with us about the security facets of remote working which is becoming more popular as...

Cisco announced key findings from its annual global study on remote workers' security awareness and online behaviour, indicating how they can inadvertently heighten risks for themselves and the companies they work for. The...

A report compiled by Timothy Golden, associate professor in the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer, showed that while remote working could boost morale and have other beneficial impacts on tele-workers, it...

Smarter working practices are becoming more widely adopted. Tomorrow’s Leaders, a study commissioned by City & Guilds and the Institute of Leadership and Management, issued today (July 30), reveals that 73 per cent of...

Privacy has got to be the security buzzword of 2007.  All out war has been declared by the subversives to use any means necessary to capture everyone’s personal details. Privacy is so paramount that even the...

New research by online recruitment specialist, www.theitjobboard.com, shows that a quarter (25.4 percent) of IT professionals have turned down a job offer because the position did not offer flexible working. In addition,...

According to research released today by Microsoft, mobile working is on the rise and businesses need to sit up and take notice or risk losing out to companies with attractive flexi-working policies.The research, commissioned by...

"Changing our working practices, and so our travel patterns, is one of the solutions to road congestion and public transport overcrowding, and probably the only one that is currently achievable."The penultimate day of Work Wise...

Today (May 18) is the second annual National Work from Home Day. Millions of workers around the UK will be experiencing the benefits of working from their home. Not only will they have avoided the fight through over-crowded...

Organisations and employees across the UK, both public and private, are being invited to take part in the second annual Work Wise Week (May 16 to 22) to continue helping create a ‘smarter’ working Britain.Staff and employers...

Remote working is a booming lifestyle choice for millions of people in the UK - and it makes sense for increasing business productivity, boosting employee motivation, as well as the added bonus of helping to save the planet.The...

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is predicting that plans to introduce mileage charging will lead to a boom in mobile computing and is calling for tax breaks to help businesses adopt more flexible working practices. Steve Kendall-Smith,...