How To Collaborate While Working Remotely With Microsoft Teams

With the majority of the workforce now moving to working entirely from home, people are adjusting to new ways of working together without being able to just turn to a colleague and ask something.

Microsoft Teams offers many benefits for remote work environments, allowing teams to continue to collaborate and communicate. In this blog, Ed explores our favourite three features of Teams that will change the way you work in Office 365 forever.

A Remote Working Guide: How to Stay Focused and Maintain Work/Life Balance

The stigma around working from home has gradually dwindled in recent years. Office workers desire flexible working options and bosses are seeing the benefits of delivering them. However, the Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) still may be the first time that you and your team have had to work from home.

Here is our guide to maintain your work/life balance and stay focused while working remotely.

Wigan Council: Empowering the Workforce, Empowering the Citizens

Donna Hall, the ex-Chief Executive of Wigan Council, will be speaking at the Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.

Hers is an inspirational story. According to the Financial Times, Wigan Council faced the third worst austerity cuts in the country as the Coalition government slashed local government spending. Yet, over Donna’s time in charge, they managed to improve resident satisfaction by 59% and saw healthy life expectancy rise by 7 years in the most deprived wards.

Reddico’s Journey into a Self-Managing Organisation

Inspired by the Happy Manifesto, Reddico started the move to becoming self-managing in March 2018. In just 18 months it has resulted in happier employees, more satisfied customers, higher revenue and a big increase in profits.

Henry Stewart spoke to Head of Operations Luke Kyte to learn how Reddico achieved this.

5 Tips for a Blissfully Easy Office 365 Roll Out

If you’re reading this, you’re probably involved or soon to be involved in rolling out Office 365 to your organisation. Whether you are setting Office 365 up yourself or liaising between your users and your IT consultants we have a few tips to make the process go as smoothly as possible.