It is more than two years since we were told to work from home in the face of the pandemic. Several lockdowns later, and thanks to the rollout of a successful vaccination programme, the UK is now living with COVID.In this article, we will look at the results of our recent hybrid...

Despite nearing the end of a long and testing pandemic, pressure on GP surgeries remains high and there are many practices around the country still struggling with outdated phone systems.Lacking line capacity and the features most modern solutions deliver, they simply cannot cope...

If you have a phone system that uses traditional copper-based ISDN or PSTN lines, it is likely that you will have been informed of the eventual switch-off for these connections. Openreach is disconnecting all copper-based telephone lines by 2025 and has already made a start switching...

Recent research has revealed that the majority of in-house lawyers across the UK and US prefer a hybrid-working setup and do not wish to return to a full-time office environment.An article in Legal Week revealed that while 57% of UK lawyers were back in the office full time...

It’s been a tough few years but businesses are largely back to normal and are beginning to look at their technology upgrade plans again. While some businesses had pushed back their plans for a specific reason, there are others who are simply daunted by the whole process and cannot...

Telephone systems have been providing a vital service for businesses of all sizes for decades. The way we used phone systems depended on office culture and user expectations of how to communicate between customers, workers and managers. However, a lot has changed since the pandemic...

The following infographic looks at how three major events have come together to create an urgent need for UK businesses to update their phone systems.Openreach’s copper line withdrawal, Covid-19 and the departure of Panasonic from the telecoms market have all played their part in...

Since adopting Wildix as our latest unified communications (UC) partner, the marketing team has been busy reading up about and attending training sessions on their product set. One thing struck me that while Wildix won the Hardware Vendor category at the Comms Business Awards in 2021...

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...

Is video conferencing the answer to lawyers juggling the needs of several clients and multiple meetings?  You have several cases to deal with today and they are all in different locations. Time, as always, is of the essence. You could possibly defer a meeting or delegate someone...