Who Needs A Holiday?!

I don't know about you, but this heat is getting to be too much! If you are stuck in the office while the temperatures soar, it can be hard to concentrate. While most larger offices have air conditioning, many smaller businesses can't justify the expense when the weather in this country can be so erratic! The school summer holidays are often a time when the offices are a bit emptier than usual anyway as some people jet off on holiday, so along with a professional call answering service to pick up the slack, you want to make sure your employees are working as well as they can. So how can you keep them cool?

Drinking cold drinks and foods will help. Instead of doing coffee and tea rounds, make up some cold drinks and keep them in the fridge. You don't need to do anything fancy - a jug of water that is kept topped up is good for cooling people down and keeping them hydrated. As for lunch, salads and sandwiches may seem like the healthy, boring option, but who really wants a steaming mug of soup when it's 30 degrees Celsius outside?! If you have a cake or biscuit day each week, why not switch to an ice cream day instead?

Keeping the blinds closed on the windows, but with the windows open will help to keep the office cool, but unless you have big windows, you will probably also need to invest in some desk fans. The quieter the better as the noisy ones can be distracting, but when the sun is blazing, anything will do! If you have a dress code that requires people to wear warmer clothing such as suits, and you are struggling to keep the office cool, you may need to consider relaxing the dress code for a while. Unless your employees are customer facing, they should be able to do their job just as well in casual attire - better in fact if they aren't sweltering hot!

Almost Summer Holiday Time!

The season of summer holidays is almost on us again! Many of us are planning our holidays abroad (although some exceptionally organised people have had theirs booked for months!), and no doubt it is the same in companies up and down the country. Suddenly everyone wants to book time off for the same brief period and managers find themselves trying to work out when everyone can have holiday without affecting the smooth running of the business. This is where a call answering service can help.

Whether you have already got the Zoomettes working for you, or you just want to be able to use Zoom as an ad hoc back up for those times when you need cover and you need it now, we can help! So if you find that all your reception staff want to go away at the same time, their holidays overlap, or someone falls sick while they are the only one covering the telephones, one phone call to Zoom and you can be covered until your employees return.

All you need to do is sign up to our ad hoc service now, and you will be a member forever, so whatever unexpected situation you find yourself dealing with you will be able to turn on your call answering service with just one phone call.