Remote Control: How to Manage Teams Remotely
All of us have now been working from home for months and we’ll have our own views on how best we might have been managed over that period. As a leading recruitment agency in London, we’ve pulled together our advice for managing remote teams: “If you’re thinking it, they’re thinking…
View PostOne thing that can be said for the past year is that it has completely changed our perception on the traditional “working life” and forced us all to utilise technology to its full potential to facilitate the remote working scenario. Whether it is an employee who is now stranded back in their home country due to travel…
View PostLooking After Your Wellbeing When Working from Home
We are now at a point where we have gained more than enough experience of working from home – to the point where many of us miss the office environment and the benefits it can offer. As we all endure our longest lockdown to date, it is also apparent that…
View PostHow to Make a Success of Your New Remote Job
Our clients are still recruiting office support roles in London throughout the latest lockdown. As a leading recruitment agency in London, we’ve gathered some top tips from our team to help you if you are among the fortunate, and growing, few who have secured a new remote office support role…
View PostClaiming Working from Home Tax Relief
Claiming Working from Home Tax Relief With millions of UK office support workers now required to work from home throughout the pandemic, many have been concerned about their household bills creeping up. This will especially be the case as we approach the colder winter months and now facing another lockdown. On the 1st October HMRC launched a new online portal where employees…
View PostA Positive Outlook on the Return to the Office
A Positive Outlook on the Return to the Office Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe in returning to the office – read our blog on why many of our team members and candidates think it’s time to catch up. Every business is different and each employee has his…
View PostUnlocking Lockdown in London – Easier Said Than Done!
Unlocking lockdown in London – easier said than done! It is becoming apparent that it is far easier to “lock down” than it is to “unlock”. The UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said earlier this week: “I want people to go back to work as carefully as possible – it’s…
View PostAffordable Tips for Setting up Remotely – For Your Urgent Start Role in London
Affordable tips setting up remotely – for your quick start temporary role in London When I first moved from Auckland to London in 2016, I had a suitcase, a backpack and only my iPhone tying me to the digital world. For most people travelling, a smartphone will be more than…
View PostWorking from Home During COVID-19 – Update
Now we are a few weeks into our new remote working lifestyles we can use a bit of retrospective wisdom and reflect. In our latest blog “Working From Home – The New Normal” we discuss navigating through what didn’t work, arriving at what does work and thinking about what’s next…
View PostCOVID-19 Through the Eyes of a Parent Working From Home
COVID-19 Through the Eyes of a Parent Working From Home I believe it was shortly after the historic pasta and toilet paper riots when working parents around the UK suddenly had their two worlds collide. Almost overnight lockdown forced us all to work full time jobs from home while at…
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