We’ve all seen the headlines recently. “It’s the end of the office as we know it.” “Coronavirus will change the way we work forever.” “Work from home is here to stay.” News and social media are full of predictions regarding the future of work, and businesses across the globe are already…
Recent disruptions to your regular work routine have probably seen you getting to grips with team collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams. And now that you’ve grasped the basics of MS Teams, it’s time to understand what more it can do beyond chat and video-conferencing. From smooth communications to enhanced productivity – Teams has more…
Part 3 – The Ugly (ok, who’s picking up this trophy then?) For Part 1 of this article, go here. Part 2 is over here. So before we get into The Ugly, let’s take a quick look at how specific technology applications can actually help with some of The Bad that we covered in…
Part 2 – The Bad (you worked out the Good, so who’s the Bad in the pic above?) If you missed Part 1, you can read it over here. And for the final instalment, Part 3, you can go here. 🤔 So, what’s bad about being a business owner? Businesses…
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
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…
Our senior tech team completed another very smooth office move this weekend. Although the customer’s new premises were only 10 minutes down the road, it still required meticulous planning to ensure that all of the data and telecoms services transferred without a hitch. Hats off to Andy and Joe for pulling it off and completing…