We all know it by now: cloud-based solutions are here to stay. With the choice we have today, it would be questionable to say the least not to take advantage of what the cloud has to offer. As a small to medium-size business, the path is already well beaten, and the fact of money being saved by using the cloud not even debatable.

No matter what we at Glasscubes think about remote working (note: we love it!), challenges remain, and, while the benefits of remote teams are undoubted, there are still things that telecommuters and their bosses can do to get better at working from home.

Our jobs are getting more complicated. The parameters of our jobs can no longer be clearly defined, and from one day to the next it’s possible for us to be assigned new tasks that we have to adapt to very quickly. This is because companies depend on an ever-changing software industry to improve efficiency. Our changing job roles are an inevitable consequence of the digital age.

Brexit. It seems so very long ago now that we voted to leave the EU. They say that a week is a long time in politics – never was that more true.

The campaigns for and against an Officexit centre themselves around the key issues of practicality, efficiency and communication. In the Officexit camp, there are the workers and management progressives, and in the Office Remain camp, the traditionalists and business owners.

Despite what you may think, leaders and managers are different beasts; they have distinctively different jobs, but equally important roles to play. The former makes sure the company succeeds by inspiring and well, leading, staff. The latter makes sure that the performance is kept at acceptable levels.

We normally do not think that how we behave in the office could impact the environment, yet there are plenty of wasteful habits that we exercise when at work. Anything from not using recycled paper to wasting plastic cups or office supplies are classic examples of how our habits are less than environmentally friendly.

Hard to explain, soft value and not something you can add to a spreadsheet: company culture, this all-encompassing “feeling” of a workplace or organisation. It can be how to behave, how things are done, customer care, and a myriad of other factors and definitions.

For any SME, the decision over whether to use cloud software or install an in-house server is a big one. The difference in cost could be significant, it could have a large bearing on how efficient a number of operations are, and there are other areas, such as speed and security, that could be seriously affected one way or the other.

Collaboration software and sleep – two concepts that you rarely see together in the same sentence. But the nature of your free time will definitely have an impact on your work performance, and sleep is one of the areas where many people suffer.