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Many studies have been conducted around the concept of working from home, and although it is widely believed that remote workers are more productive than their non-remote peers, the working from home environment can have its problems, typically when collaborating on tasks or projects (Chokshi, 2017). Amongst other things this could be one of the […]

Before the pandemic a lot was said about remote working, illustrating its great benefits to both employer and employee, and highlighting its huge impact on worker’s productivity and creativity. Some businesses, such as Octagon, have been adapting to this model and have been using it with great success. We decided to go remote in 2007,

Once again we find ourselves sealed in at home, those of us who can work from home that is, and whether you consider that a good or a bad thing you will have to make the best of it. While working from home will hopefully be a temporary solution, it is important not only to

At the end of each year many of us slow down and rethink about what happened during the past months, contemplating what went well, what did not so much and what can be improved. I’m sure many of us hugely anticipate the New Year and look forward to starting new plans, achieving new goals and

Contact form 7 WordPress developers updated their plugin last week to patch a security vulnerability that allowed unrestricted file uploads in all versions up to and including 5.3.1 – so we would strongly recommend that if you are using this plugin for your website’s contact form you run an update asap.  Of course, if you are a

I’m sure many will agree that 2020 will stay in our memory for a little while! Many of us entered the New Year optimistically with new ambitious plans, promises and goals to achieve. The future looked promising and then the bomb was dropped on us all – the pandemic happened! Many small business owners realised

Email is an amazing technology. It’s used for many things that you probably do in modern life. Companies use it for a day-to-day communication with their customers, to welcome them and to send updates about their services/products, promotions, purchase confirmations, password resets etc. Unfortunately, it can create some problems too.   Here are some of the most common email issues and ways to deal with

Since this version of WordPress came out last week Wordfence, the leading WordPress security plugin, has brought out an update (7.4.14) to prevent a potential security vulnerability. WordPress 5.6 now has application password functionality which will be useful in a number of scenarios including ecommerce plugins, but hackers could gain administrator access rights through phishing