Saturday, 3 November 2012

Cool Office Buildings

We all want to work somewhere nice, like being at home almost but it's work. a breathtaking view with not too many distractions. However, the need for a well designed,flashy office is a must nowadays, with the basics like electricity, internet and heat being vital. Other stuff like carpet is just a bonus, but there's always slippers or small carpet offcuts tied to the feet with twine. 

 

Some offices are just breathtaking nowadays, with the latest designs catching the eyes of many people. quite frankly, if i worked in some of these offices in question, i wouldnt care what job i had to do, because i would be inside the building itself, appreciating it from the inside.

However, not everyone can afford to build their dream office, and instead have to look for cheap offices to rent or even shared offices to rent in order to get by.

You can just about rent out any type of office nowadays, from executive offices all the way to virtual offices and even car parking rentals

Now that....is an office i would like to own!

Friday, 5 October 2012

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We all want to work somewhere nice, like being at home almost but it's work, with a quite minimalist view, not too many distractions, but nevertheless a view to keep our souls fed when we work for 'th man'. I have to say I've never been to good at working for th eman, so I prefer to work for my self. However, the need for a well designed quality office, with the basics like electricity, internet and heat are vital. Other stuff like carpet is just a bonus, but there's always slippers or small carpet offcuts tied to the feet with twine. This may not go down well at meetings when shoes woudl obviously be required.

Obviously, if you're really lucky you get an office designed by a real architect like Richard Rodgers. Then you don't care who you work for or what you're asked to do, cos you're in 'the office';

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What would you rather do spend hours in a rectangular box with artificial lighting, small windows and unreliable heating, or givbe your right arm to work in a glass guerkin with advanced electronic ventilation system, which would mean you were double cool.

 

Monday, 20 August 2012

Charity fundraiser rule change

Chairites in the business center U.K now face a barage of rules to follow, and if any of these are breached the charity may be fined at least £1,000. offices

The rules restrict the street fundraisers from following a person for more than 3 steps, which is actually probably welcome, as sometimes, charity fundraisers can be a bit overzealous, when it comes to the aqcusition of funds.
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The scheme is being introduced after a year long trial, the enforcing body will be the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA).
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The new regime means that street fundraisers must not stand within 3m of a shop doorway, cashpoint, pedestrian crossing or station entrance. Which is probably a good thing again as these areas could maybe guilt trip someone into giving funds away when they had no original intention of doing so.

They are also not allowed to sign up anyone to a direct debit, who is unabe to give informed consent, ie someone who is taking drink/ drugs or disabled.
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They are also unable to approach members of the public who are working.

 

Thursday, 16 August 2012

Nigerian app market

The app market business centre in Nigeria may seem a little strange when you compare it to the market over in the western nations. Over here the norm is for a lrger amount of free apps, with in-app advertising or paid for features, this has been concluded as the best model to follow with your app. However, in Nigeria it appears that paid for apps seem to hold a lot of bouyancy over there, they have $10 apps at the top of their download charts, service office they also appear to adore the scriptures of christianity and islam, with 'Message Bible' being launched at relatively the same time as Angry Birds, in Nigeria message bible was a smash hit, reaching no.15 top grossing apps on the Iphone, in the USA however, it didn't even reach 600.
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Popular Nigerian apps are expensive, costing around $10, 'QuickOffice Pro' made the top ten and it cost $15. Comparing their market to the USA's, in the USA, 9/10 top apps are free. Why is this? Is it because that most iphones bought in Nigeria are by rich people, yet in America, see more everyone seems to have one? Could it be because it may work out cheaper in the long run, ie. A Nigerian may buy a bible and scriptures for around $100, or they could buy the app for $10.

One thing which could be true, is the slim demographic in which the Nigerian app market is propped up by, it appears that it is a small few who are purchasing these apps, maybe suggesting they are affluent people willing to purchase expensive apps.

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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

The train.


Richard Branson, boss of Virgin, which I'm sure you knew. business centre Well, Richard Branson has lost his bid to continue running the west coast mainline in the UK, it's contract will be going to FirstGroup, the small office space apparently largest rail operator here.

They have released statements suggesting that they will be "offering substantial improvements in the quality and frequency of services". rent office Which is hardly suprising, I'd be more intruiged if I heard they were downgrading the quality of the service and they were going to make sure the trains were late. Richard Branson has also said that this is 'very dissapointing news', which I hate to say, but thats kind of obvious as he had just lost a part of his business. I'd be surprised if he said he was ecstatic at the news.

Anyway, unions and rail compaigners haver argued jobs will be cut, fares will rise and catering services will be cut back. office space Well, aren't people employed if they are needed? so as such if there was any need for cuts it's because it wouldn't of been running efficiently? Therefore in turn this should reduce fares? You'd hope anyway.

FirstGroup, which is based in Aberdeen, already operate a variety of networkds including Great Western and ScotRail.

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The company, under the name First West Coast Limited, will take over the franchise from 9 December and is due to to operate the service until 2026.

 

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Dont judge a facebook by its cover.

Not too recently Facebook decided to try its hand at being a company represented on the stock market, with the public and business able to buy shares. The company was valued at a huge amount due to the size of its userbase and the selective targetting of its advertising. The problem with all this was the question of whether people actually bother to click adverts anymore. There are businesses out there who have said that they don't work, others that say they do. click here

It has come to light that swiss bank UBS has lost shares of almost 356 million dollars investing in facebook. Facebook was valued at 104 billion dollars earlier this year, shares are not at a 39% low from this point. UBS is now looking at ways to save money, which may mean cutting around 3,500 jobs.

In some people's views they say if you are purchasing this stock to sell off tomorrow or next week then you will be dissapointed, it is far better to wait to be rewarded, to wait around a year.

For something made in a dormroom, you have to admit that it has achieved far beyond what most dormroom projects probably do. Making Mark Zuckerberg the youngest billionaire ever.

When Amazon went public, it was but a mere bookstore. Many people said that it was going to go dot com bust. When, nowadays it is the retailer for the world. worth $200 a share, while it started at $2.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Unlimited Holiday.

Theres something amazing happening in some areas of the world, namely silicon valley.  It has become apparent that some employees hard work is being rewarded with the oppurtunity to manage their own schedules, companies from netflix to best buy or rewarding their workers in this way. Even with the economy in the state it is, this is still apparently viable. I wonder how the work-rate will change?

I don't mean to make it sound like they're just on holiday all the time. It's merely that a tally isn't kept of when they aren't in the office. As long as they complete their work then all is well. Maybe they should look for office accommodation telford.

They still have to make sure their co-workers are completing their work too! But I think I'd be able to complete work and make sure my co-workers were working if I was on a beach in mexico.

Are we going to move into a new era? where people are so connected and technology is so advanced that it is easier and more economically sound to work seperate from a specific location? I sure hope so. I can only imagine it being rather good. Click here