It’s a long way from full lockdown, but there will be some disappointed businesses and staff re-adopting a work from home policy this week after Plan B was brought in by the Government to protect the NHS while Omicron numbers rise in the UK.For some people, working from home has...

The days of just using the phone to communicate with colleagues and clients are behind us, and I am not just talking about email. Just as we use apps like WhatApp, FaceTime and WeTransfer (to name a few) in our personal lives, we want to use professional versions of these at work,...

As of January 5, 2021, the UK is entered its third nationwide lockdown due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. People are being told to “Stay at home”, which means working from home. Before the second lockdown in November 2020, the Office for National Statistics reported that the...

The year 2020 will be remembered by many as one to forget with the pandemic causing distress in so many different ways. For the IT industry, it has been the year when businesses began to take digital transformation seriously as they were forced to adopt remote working strategies to...

In this short video, I have provided you an overview on one of the UK’s most popular cloud-hosted telephone systems, Gamma Horizon. Gamma Horizon is what is known in the comms industry as ‘highly available’ and all this really means is that it is on the worldwide web. You can...

We all felt a second lockdown was coming. The rising number of cases of COVID-19 and the increase in people being admitted into hospital led Boris Johnson to his announcement on Saturday night to the dismay of most people who were watching. Among the most disappointed will be the...

Businesses were forced to embrace remote working during lockdown and some have adopted this strategy as a long-term model for a proportion of their staff, if not all.  However, adopting a remote working strategy is not without its challenges. As swcomms moves towards a hybrid...

With the Government announcing 2,988 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday - the highest figure since May 22– there are concerns of a second wave of coronavirus and the implications this may have on businesses. Daily confirmed cases began edging up again in July - after falling...

COVID-19 has meant remote working has moved from being a niche requirement for a small subset of employees to a mainstream operational necessity. Most businesses have been investigating potential for remote access and connectivity while trying to find ways of reducing inefficiencies...

The August bank holiday marks the end summer. It will be September when we return to work next week and autumn will have begun. Schools will also shortly be re-open to all pupils for the first time since the end of March. For GP surgeries, it will be business as usual, except many...