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It’s official – the British Workforce has moved on! I read a quote recently that said Britain has ‘the wrong workers, in the wrong place, at the wrong time’. And it is [...]

21 years ago, Olly & I worked for a business called Inkfish Call Centres. It was there that we first trialled Smart Working. We introduced amazing options such as Gym, Term Time, Winter [...]

Many teams have underlying trust issues. Yet so many Leaders don’t want to want to face it.  Instead the problem is ignored – swept under the carpet – because the team is productive! [...]

On bleak and windswept Whittington Moor in Derbyshire stood an alehouse. It was called the Cock and Pynot which is a dialect word for magpie. Through the rain, three horsemen rode to this remote [...]

It’s tough right now and even though we are steadily coming out of lockdown, there is a chance we will continue to work in a distributed way at least some of the time – perhaps meeting up for [...]

Societal Norms – that web of behavioural expectations that keep us in check. Societal Norms are an implicit set of unwritten rules in a society that are based on cultural values of a [...]

‘Aberration’! Canary Wharf! Baby Boomers and Travel! What an interesting time we are having in the news. 1. Goldman Sachs. Why would a corporate leader would call remote working an [...]

We’re thrilled! We’ve been appointed a Kick Start ‘Intermediary’  by the UK Government.  But you can bet your bottom dollar that the Smart Working Kick Start Programme is [...]

Last March, most business leaders took a leap of faith. They had little choice when they asked their workforce to work remotely. It worked. Many managers told us just how productive their [...]

Things can only get better. The CIPD say more than half of UK employers intend to recruit staff in the next three months, according to new research.  The sectors mentioned include Finance, [...]