The 4-day working week arouses many feelings in employers, stakeholders and employees - from excitement to anger! Where do you sit? Either way, people are interested in the idea of the 4-day working week but can it be achieved successfully? Join our Fireside Chat with Chris Morrell, Operations Director at Pro Drive IT and [...]
Some of you will know that we at Pro Drive have been hoping to adopt a 4-day working week for our full-time staff. We’re in phase two of our trial and, if you’d like to know what we’re doing, we have a video about it. As many people say they would like to work like [...]
Here at Pro Drive, we use Tango browser extension. If you’re fed up with how much time it takes to document processes for guides etc, you should use Tango too! You’ll know exactly what we’re talking about if you have to spend hours documenting things like Operating Procedures, Tutorials/’How to’s’, Product Updates, Training Guides, [...]
We take you through Viva Insights, part of Microsoft Viva, the employee experience platform which was launched in 2021, with hybrid working particularly in focus. It’s easily accessible in Teams. To get a feel for the intention behind it, Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft said at the Viva launch: “Every organisation will require a [...]
Pro Drive IT is trialling a new flexible working week arrangement which, our research suggests, will provide benefits to both staff and clients … By Chris Morrell, Operations Director I’m going to start with a confession, I am inherently a very lazy person. Depending on how long you’ve known me this will or won’t come [...]
We offer many IT services and are always looking out for useful tools to make clients more productive. Calendly is free Online Appointment Scheduling Software and it's one of our favourite go-to's. If you get fed up with organising meetings and trying to find a mutually convenient slot, this is for you! Save time [...]
There are so many apps and IT solutions out there aimed at helping individuals and teams to work more productively. They include those that focus on collaboration and project management, as well as specific tasks like calculations and are useful whether working remotely or in the office. Here are five of our favourites: 1. Microsoft [...]
The UK government views poor productivity as the most significant modern-day threat to our future economy. Far more so than Brexit. Improving productivity is one of the Chancellor's pet projects. And if the numbers are to be believed it is easy to see why. If productivity had grown in line with the pre-2008 trend, output [...]
Productivity apps are all the rage at the moment, although – as we said in our previous blog – should not be considered a 'magic bullet' to organising your schedule or curing procrastination. Microsoft, who have produced arguably the most well-known and utilised productivity app of all time - Microsoft Outlook - are getting in [...]
I have just been to an excellent seminar on productivity – or, more specifically, how to avoid productivity 'traps'. This subject is close to my heart because our clients are investing in new technology specifically to improve their productivity. Therefore, we are constantly updating our knowledge and analysing what we have learned so that we can [...]
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