People have come to rely on MS Teams for hybrid working and communicating but it can be frustrating sometimes.
When you start your computer it automatically opens. It can be disabled from doing this.
In Windows 11 this is a simple change. You can still manually start Teams when needed but this video will show you how to prevent it starting each time you start your computer.
It’s no secret that some applications are a little too interested in us and what we’re doing.
We’ve all had this experience. You might be talking to a friend about a new product that you’d like to try. Or perhaps you’ve discussed somewhere you’d like to visit.
Then the next time you go online you see adverts for the exact things you were talking about.
It’s more than a coincidence, surely???
Until recently, we haven’t had a lot of control over what information our apps are gathering about us.
Spam emails. Everyone hates them.
It’s not just the emotional pain of clearing spam from your inbox. Having to do that is a real productivity killer, too.
A recent report found that each one of your employees could be losing up to 80 hours each year, thanks to filtering and deleting spam emails.
That’s a LOT of lost productivity.
Anywhere between 45% and 85% of emails generated each day are spam emails. And worryingly, that also includes malicious emails and those hoping to infect you with malware.
When you own or manage a business, your cognitive load can be overwhelming.
Not only do you have your own work to think about, but your focus often has to be split between that and what your people need from you.
That can mean interruption after interruption; a mounting to-do list; and never quite achieving that work/life balance. Which was probably one of your main goals when you started your business.
Imagine hours to get on with your most important tasks, without any interruptions from your team.
It’s the dream isn’t it?
A major update to Windows 11 will help you work with zero distractions. Our new video shows you how.
When you’re browsing it can feel like you’re being bombarded with things other people want you to see.
Not only do we have to click on permissions for cookies and tracking, but now a lot of websites ask for our permission to send us notifications.
And while many of these notifications are harmless – news updates, latest recipes, product releases – sometimes they can be outright spam.
It’s distracting, it’s making us less productive at work, and it’s just really annoying.
It’s called ‘notification spam’ and it’s becoming a problem. In fact, Google says it’s one of the top complaint reports from people using its Chrome browser.
So now the tech giant has decided to do more about it.
It feels like every day we’re being warned about a new threat to our cyber security, doesn’t it?
That’s for good reason. Last year, ransomware attacks alone affected 73% of UK businesses.
And the cost of cyber-crime is estimated to hit $10.5 trillion by 2025, according to the ‘2022 Cybersecurity Almanac’.
But we’re still seeing far too many businesses that aren’t taking this threat seriously.
It’s not only your data that you could lose if your company falls victim to a cyber-attack. The cost of remediation or mitigation can run into tens of thousands of £££.
And at the same time you’ll suffer an average of 21 days downtime after a cyber-attack. Imagine… 21 days without being able to use all your business technology as normal. It doesn’t bear thinking about.
Ransomware is one of the fastest growing cyber-crimes in the world. Last year, 37% of businesses were victim to an attack.
In case you didn’t know, a ransomware attack is where cyber criminals infiltrate your network (or device) and steal your data by encrypting it. The data is still there, but you can’t access it.
Then they demand you pay a large ransom fee for the encryption key.
If you don’t pay the demand (which can be tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds), they delete your data.
It’s not just the cost of the ransom fee to worry about. There’s the stress, reputational damage and downtime that goes with it. In 2021, the average downtime suffered after a ransomware attack was 22 days.
Official advice is not to pay any ransomware demands.
Early on in the first lockdowns in 2020, did you ever sit at your computer and think “I really like working from home”?
Or were you the opposite; desperate to get back into a building and meet with other people like in the old days?
Whichever was the case – and whether you feel the same now – we’ve ended up with a mix of the two: Hybrid working.
Some people are in the office. Some are at home. The days of having everyone together at the same time are gone. Maybe forever.
Which means that video calls are here to stay.
If you want to invest in your video call setup, here are three easy upgrades for you.
We have all seen a LOT of change over the past couple of years.
We’ve changed the way we work. The way we shop. And the way we interact with others.
How has your business changed?
What change do you need to make in the years ahead?
And how does your technology help to power that?