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Last week (13-17th October) was Small Business Week

 

During the week a number of events were held around the country and each day focused on a particular topic. One of the topics was Flexible Working – either Home Working or the ability to work on the move. Flexible Working can provide a number of benefits including – cost savings on travel, flexibility to attract and retain key staff, improved work life balance for employees and flexibility to respond more quickly to customers.

There are a number of products and services which can provide the solutions to help a business implement Flexible Working, for example the ability to access to emails and data on the move by using a mobile device such as a Blackberry or the ability to access the internet from a laptop at BT Openzone hotspots. For Home Workers this could include a remote extension at home linked to the office telephone system so a home worker is able to work as though they were in the office.

But it’s not just about what products and services can help Flexible Working; for many businesses, implementing Flexible Working can raise new issues as well as provide many benefits. The aim of Small Business Week was to share knowledge and experience to help address such issues.

With this in mind I’d like to ask: Have any of you faced any issues implementing Flexible Working and if so, how did you solve those issues?

For further information:-

Small Business Week

A Flexible Working Guide

Message Edited by AdamUC01 on 24-10-2008 10:09 AM

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My business is all about flexibility travelling from property to property gathering information, often a long way from the office. I chose the bt small business because it gave away some use of hotspots with the package, I have yet to try these though. But the idea is that I can send back finished Inventories from a cafe hotspot or airport instead of travelling for an hour in another direction.

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I run a really small company so it's not such a problem for us, we use BlackBerry's and Openzone where applicable. That pretty much does the trick. A couple of my colleagues are based at home and use LiveMeeting and BlackBerry's and it all works pretty well.

Like the positivity generated by SBW by the way, thought that was the best thing to come out of the Week.