Co-working spaces made a noisy entrance into the world of work a few years ago, and with the recent hype and valuation around WeWork, they look set to be sticking around for a while yet. In fact, a total of 2,188 new spaces were opened worldwide in 2018, and figures continue to rise. This isn’t…
Keep your office life in tip-top shape A cluttered mind makes for a cluttered desk, and visual chaos feeds mental chaos – it’s a perpetual loop. While our minds don’t have an ’emptiable’ recycling bin, we can definitely try to organise our office life. Here are a few tips and tricks that should put you…
Meet James… James is a Senior Tech at ITbuilder. He’s been with the company almost 8 years and still loves jumping out of bed every morning to go help all the ITbuilder clients with their IT needs. We sat down with James to find out more about what he does day-to-day, and also ask him…
As any reputable IT company should, we celebrated Sysadmin today https://sysadminday.com/ Although we are, in our own way, all sysadmins here at ITbuilder (System Administrators, for the non-tech), Russ Stenson, is the Sysadmin’s sysadmin. So, for this reason, we celebrated his legendary tech skills on this special day, where IT users up and down the…
When your air-conditioning goes on the blink during the peak summer heatwave, techs get busy. Pre-10am next day order with our friends at Screwfix and these smart little portables, together with a clever window ducting kit, are keeping us as cool as.. with the help of a Cornetto or two, of course. #techlife #officelife #lifeofatech
This week, we took delivery of the new edition of ITbuilder summer T-shirts, just in time for some nice, hot weather. Cut in a denim-style, lightweight cotton, the 2019 release is our most popular yet. Some people think they fit a little snugly, but with that’s no problem for a group of specimens who rigourously…
Here is Jake pointing out the tasty wall-board upgrade we just completed in the office. The service desk vital-statistics board has been souped up to a pair of twin-55″ LED screens. Visible from every corner of the office, the impressive work that Jake and co do each day can be seen at a glance by…
Following our last post, we came in for some heavy criticism on Instagram for the lack of “Friday throat sauce”. To demonstrate that we aren’t all about the Ocean Spray and Tommy J, here is our drinks fridge, located in the open office, which is topped weekly but never, ever opened before 5pm on a…
We think that the state of a company’s fridge can tell you a lot about a business. That is why we are proud to throw open the door of ours to the world and demonstrate what a tidy team we are. Thanks to a regular clear out and clean down, there is no chance of…
Last week, we suffered a serious systems-down emergency at ITbuilder HQ. Our hot-water urn packed up, which plunged the office into relative chaos. An emergency kettle was arranged but it struggled to handle the require output of Joe needed to fuel an IT Helpdesk. So, our MD and general office handyman attempted to repair the…