Work Your Proper Hours Day is next week (Friday 27 Feb), and to help us mark the event, work life balance expert Professor Cary Cooper of Lancaster University has helped us make a special interactive long hours clinic tool. Tell us a bit about your working situation, and we can match your profile with Professor Cooper’s tips to get a better balance.
You can also read more about the event (with other tools and games to fiddle with during your precious break times) at www.workyourproperhoursday.com
Try the Long Hours Clinic tool now
posted 19/02/2009
With many employers cutting back on workplace festivities this Christmas, seasonal cheer may be in short supply in Britain’s offices.
Given that staff may end up having to do more themselves this year, we’ve redeveloped our online secret Santa tool, to make it easier to arrange low price gift giving amongst your colleagues. You tell us your colleagues’ names and addresses and it will do the rest, pairing people up with someone, but keeping it all hush hush as to who bought what for who.
Give it a go now at www.worksmart.org.uk/santa – It’s a fun, inexpensive way of keeping the Christmas spirit alive in workplaces that might not have had much to smile about recently.
You can also use our online greetings cards to send a personal Christmas message to friends and colleagues. You’ll find a selection of Christmas themed cards in our ecards section.
And to help those at work over the festive break, we’ve put together a guide to the pitfalls of working through Christmas and the New Year. Banned from sticking up tinsel, or worried you’ll have to work through Christmas lunch? We’ve got answers for your festive problems.
And of course, all of us at workSMART want to wish all our users a very happy Christmas and a great start to the working year in 2009.
posted 09/12/2008
As Get Safe Online Week draws to a close today, we’ve got a new interactive toolkit to help improve workers’ Internet security awareness and skills. According to Get Safe Online’s 2008 Report, a worrying 66% of Internet users have the same password for multiple websites, 23% have posted confidential or personal information online, and 17% have opened email attachments from an unknown source, potentially putting themselves at risk from viruses or other malicious software.
This could have a huge impact on the firms they work for, who may stand to lose valuable commercial or customer data, or lose money through damage or downtime due to attacks, not to mention getting people into trouble – whether or not they know what they’ve done wrong.
The benefits that the Internet brings to UK business are growing every day. Social media and networking are increasingly important to people’s professional and personal lives. But employers have to put time and money into making sure their staff are aware of the dangers associated with working online, or they could just be pouring all the money they spend on the rest of their computer security systems down the drain.
So, to do something about this, we’ve got together with GetSafeOnline.org and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) to produce Not Safe For Work? – a free online toolkit for people at work in the UK. It has video interviews from industry experts, quizzes and reading lists, and can make you a personalised advice prescription, tailored to your own Internet usage.
Have a go now, it could tell you something that will save you a lot of grief.
And hey, let’s be careful out there!
posted 21/11/2008
We’ve just updated the information behind our company finder tool, and it’s now nearly twice as detailed as before. We have more detailed profiles now on over 10,000 of the largest companies, along with basic information on more than a million smaller firms. The stats are more up to date, and for a double-whammy, now go back further in time too, for easy comparisons.
The UK’s best free company information tool (in our humble opinions) just got even better – Give it a go now.
posted 20/07/2007
Are you clued up about your pension prospects? If you’re like most of us, we guess not. Never fear though, in partnership with the pensions site Pensions Champions, we’ve build a great new tool to analyse what you’ve got coming, and work out a personal prescription for you. Read more…
posted 29/06/2007
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