Swine Flu is not disappearing and we may still experience a big rise in of numbers of children and adults off sick from work and school, with predicted absence rates of up to 40%. The demand on residential broadband access for entertainment and home working purposes could soar as result more
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Swine Flu: Can Residential Broadband Cope with increased demand?
Friday, November 6th, 2009Remote Working: On the rise, but will it be sustained?
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009A colleague handed me a copy of Management Today recently, pointing out a Masterclass feature on remote working. The author recognises the rise of remote working in a time when cost cutting enthusiasts can see big savings through fewer desks, less equipment and less office space, suggesting that we will see a surge in more remote based employees. However the last comment that it ‘may do more harm than good’ as employees become isolated and businesses lose their ‘esprit de corps’ rather dampens my original enthusiasm for this article. (more…)
World Health Organisation on brink of declaring global pandemic
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
The H1N1 swine flu virus has spread to 74 countries, with a sharp increase in reported cases in Australia. The UN have called an emergency meeting to discuss the imapct of an imminent declaration by the World Health Organisation to raise the level from 5 to 6, which would see the world in its first global pandemic since 1968. A pandemic which killed around one million people. The disease is classed as a pandemic when it has spread from human to human when widespread within two regions of the world. If a pandemic is declared, governments could quite quickly call for travel bans and school closures, a move which could in theory start bringing organisations to a standstill. (more…)
