At British Tags we have been able to put into practice something we were preparing for – the Great Work From Home experiment. Was it good fortune or great foresight that saw our MD sign on the dotted line to upgrade our server at the end of 2019, a move which has allowed all of us to log in from wherever we are in the UK and act like we had never abandoned our Guildford premises for the safety of home? Whichever, it meant that our customer database and accounts computer programme no longer whinged and stuttered when we signed in from Brighton or Birmingham and immediately “working from home” was a much more productive activity. Huge thanks to Ramsac IT for their help with that project – we hardly noticed that the guts of our business tech was being ripped out and rebuilt last November. Matt there is a star and he may well get one of our new customised sample medals with branded ribbon as a thank you. Lucky Matt!

Corona Virus and The Great Work From Home Event
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Three weeks and a bit on and we British Taggers are all sitting in our bedrooms, kitchens or living rooms, draining our home WIFI, but able to get on with the work that we all want to do: picking up phone calls from prospects and customers as well as answering the enquiries that are coming through to us from our website. Personally I miss the work banter, the whinge about who hasn’t done the washing up, the rush to get a cappuccino from the van that comes singing and dingling into our business park every day at 10.30 or sneaking a biscuit from my room colleague who buys custard creams as if there might be a shortage on the way. But I have also learned that work can perhaps be even more productive without all of that going on and that working in your slippers is actually quite comforting in these difficult times. Who knows what the future of ‘work’ will look like. Maybe we will find ‘going into the office’ a bit odd and that working in normal footwear just doesn’t feel quite right.