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IN THIS ISSUE
05
Agenda
Are your meetings safe from hackers?
11
Competition
Win a 3M privacy filter for your iPhone
12
Mailing
Are Mailmark franking machines still good value?
14
App Update
New apps for work and play
16
Displays
Why sales of large format displays
are on the up
19
IT Services
Konica Minolta breaks new ground with
theWorkplace Hub
21
Business Inkjets
Epson launches super-fast, 100ppmA3 inkjet MFP
26
Dictation
What to look for in digital dictation workflow
software
28
Collaboration
How changing working practices are driving
demand for collaboration solutions
30
Innovations
The month’s best new products and services
32
Wellbeing
Why organisations should do more
to look after their employees
36
Office Products
Retro-fit sit-stand desks and other new office products
38
Office Design
How Flowscape office management software
supports flexible working at Telia’s new HQ
42
The Month in Numbers
The world of work in numbers
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So, BA’s laughable (as long as you weren’t caught up in it)
IT meltdown over the last bank holiday weekend wasn’t the
fault of technology after all, but of basic human error. As
if that’s an excuse. Human error is inevitable. Until robots
take over our jobs, businesses should expect mistakes and
create procedures to minimise their likelihood and impact. If
BA’s right and what happened in its datacentre wasn’t an IT
failure, it must mean that its system of checks and controls
failed, which in some ways is even more troubling.
As human beings, it is not just our actions that are fallible; our
bodies are less than reliable too. Businesses need to plan for this
as well. In the past, this might have involved purely retrospective
action, such as the recruitment of temps or the provision of
equipment that would allow the absentee to work from their
home/sick bed. Increasingly, businesses are taking pre-emptive
action through employee wellness programmes. On page 32,
Nikki Roy, director of Body Mechanics Remedial, explains why
this makes sound business sense, and on page 36 Tayla Ansell
describes how the use of a retro-fit sit-stand workstation has
sorted out her aches and pains.
Technology has a big role to play in the creation of a more
employee-friendly environment. In this issue’s Office
Design feature on page 38 we describe how Telia is using
FlowScape’s indoor positioning and mapping technology
to enable its employees to make the most of the diverse
working environments it has created in its new HQ. Features
like Colleague Finder, which locates colleagues and shows
whether they are free to talk, can also alleviate some of the
inconveniences of hot desking (see page 7). On page 28, we look
at chat-enabled collaboration solutions that perform much the
same function for today’s more mobile workforce.
On the subject of mobility, don’t forget to enter our competition
for a 3M privacy screen for your iPhone (see page 11).With one
year until GDPR regulations come into force, a privacy screen
could be seen as a wise precaution to minimise the risk data
breaches through the careless use of smartphones by employees
in public places.
James Goulding
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