3
Employers lose almost 3% of their working time
to employee absence, a report from HR website
XpertHR reveals. This equates to 6.6 days per
employee. Absence rates increase in line with
company size: organisations with less than 100
employees lose just 1.8% of their working time,
or 4 days per employee, while organisations with
1,000 or more workers lose 3.8% of working
time, or 8.8 days per employee.
27
Slow or inadequate broadband is the biggest
barrier to homeworking according to a new
study by Regus. Over a quarter (27%) of UK
professionals surveyed by the global workspace
provider say that inadequate internet provision
stops them from working from home.
44
A new Fellowes survey highlights poor document
security within businesses, with 44% of UK
office workers having seen confidential printed
documents in the workplace and one in five
(20%) admitting that they never shred work
documents. One third (32%) have accidentally
seen private emails and electronic documents
on a colleague’s screen. Almost half (47%) don’t
know whether their company is taking action
to comply with the European General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR).
48
Almost half (48%) of UK adults believe that the
Government should pay up when public services
are held to ransom by hackers, finds research by
Top10VPN.com. Britons are more concerned about
cyber attacks on services like the NHS (60%) and
banks (56%) than infrastructure like the National
Grid (29%).When it comes to their own data,
nearly three quarters (72%) say they would not
pay any ransom for a locked smartphone.
55
Companies risk losing up to 55% of customers
if they suffer a significant personal data leak,
warns Baringa Partners. Its research into consumer
attitudes towards data protection reveals that, in
the event of a data breach, 30% of people would
‘switch provider immediately’ and a further 25%
would ‘wait to see the media response/what others
say and do’ before switching. Almost two thirds
(64%) of customers currently trust companies with
their personal data. The main reasons for doing so
are because ‘they are an established brand/have a
strong reputation’ (29%) and ‘they have been my
provider for a long time’ (18%).
61
Nearly two thirds (61%) of UK workers keep
aspects of their private lives hidden at work,
according to research by Inclusive Employers.
Family difficulties (46%) topped the list of
subjects people like to keep private, followed
by mental health (31%). One in five said they
would hide their sexual orientation. Yet, over a
quarter of workers (26%) say they would feel
less connected to their workplace if they hid
an aspect of themselves and 18% said their
performance would suffer.
92
Ninety-two percent of IT security professionals
report that company employees attempt to
access information they do not need for their
day-to-day work – 66% of IT professionals
surveyed by One Identity admit to doing the
same. Source:
The One Identity Global State of
IAM Study, 2017
250,000
Cloud account software company Xero has
surpassed a quarter of a million small business
subscribers in the UK. Earlier this year, Xero
expanded its UK headquarters in Milton Keynes
to accommodate new sales and customer
experience staff. From just seven staff in 2012,
Xero now employs more than 200 people in the
UK and more than 1,800 in 21 offices worldwide.
309.9 million
Blizz by TeamViewer, a dedicated web conferencing
and collaboration solution, reached 1 million
minutes of online meetings just two months after
its official launch. Blizz provides a simple set-up
process that lets users start and join meetings
instantly via a web interface. Additionally, meetings
with up to 300 participants can be held on
Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS devices.
1.9 billion
More data records were lost or stolen in the first
half of 2017 (1.9 billion) than in all of 2016 (1.37
billion), according to Gemalto’s
Breach Level
Index
. This equates to 10,439,560 records lost or
stolen every day, or 121 records every second.
The Government suffered the most reported data
breaches with 12, ahead of technology businesses
(7) and healthcare (6). The largest reported data
breach in the UK involved 26,000,000 records
held by the NHS.
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