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Blog The three secrets of work from home productivity

The three secrets of work from home productivity

Because 95% of our team works from home and we have been working this way for over 15 years I feel confident that I can help people to understand what it is really like to build a work from home strategy. There are so many ‘experts’ online at present, but who has real knowledge?

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Blog Mobile gaming: unauthorized spending increases with people at home

Mobile gaming: unauthorized spending increases with people at home

With more and more companies providing work-from-home possibilities, and children spending more time at home during school breaks, many tend to fill the time previously spent commuting or at after-school activities on picking up new or old hobbies.

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Blog Digital (mis)communication

Digital (mis)communication

A lot of people are currently being thrust into the murky waters of communicating purely via different apps. It’s dangerous. I’m Australian, and to me, the perfect analogy would be diving head-first into a muddy river on a scorcher of a day.

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Blog After the crisis, what is the future for work from home strategies?

After the crisis, what is the future for work from home strategies?

Many management consultants and business experts are advising executives to move their workforce home with laptops until the crisis is over. What they are not saying is that this is now business as usual – the new normal.

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Blog #PlayApartTogether: gaming is helping to maintain good health during self-isolation

How gaming is is helping to maintain good health during self-isolation

The World Health Organization and almost every national government has encouraged everyone in non-essential roles to stay at home. With millions of people in self-isolation there is a real need to ensure these people have something to do.

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Are you ready to embrace the new economy?

Companies across the world are finding their business extremely disrupted at present and it looks like things may get worse before they get better. During this time there has been a strong focus on the need for people to work from home. Business journals are full of tips and tricks on how to keep companies running when nobody is at the office, but the emphasis is always on this situation being temporary.

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How working remotely has allowed me invaluable time with my son

“I’m on break, it’s my turn to hold him!” This is just one statement many fathers don’t get to say to their significant other as they usually do not have home based job. The first set of stressors that come with being a new parent is the concern of scheduling, finances, and returning to work.

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Pulling apart the myth that work can only be done in one place

I speak from a limited experience when it comes to working remotely, but one that is all too familiar to many people who work or study in modern urban environments.

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How working from home allowed me to eat in the world’s best restaurant

I’ve been passionate about cuisine for as long as I can remember.

I attended the Ritz school for kids in Paris at the age of five, did an internship in a 3 Michelin star restaurant at fifteen and at twenty-six I ate in the best restaurant in the world.

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International women’s day at 5CA

International Women’s day is here and we would really like to give it the attention it deserves. That is why we’ve asked Recruiter Ivana Bera, Senior Agent Ana Morazán, Traffic Controller Cinandi Botha and Administrative Assistant Sera Ozerinc to answer 5 questions regarding this important day and the position of women in general.

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Gen Wii – Alexa, find me a job!

Floppy disks or cloud storage. Two terms that most likely just evoked an image in your mind. Oh, wait, Floppy disk doesn’t ring a bell? In that case, you’re probably the reason I’m writing this up.

That’s right, I’m referring to the new kids on the block: Generation Z.

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