Here in mind but not in body 6 months of Covid and only 30% of UK workers are back at their desks in the offices, unlike 50% of French and 49% of German office teams. Some places like Dusseldorf managed to get 71% back at their desks (AlphaWise, Morgan Stanley survey July 2020). This is …[ read more ]
Q-R code from Presto Chefs are cooking delicious feast but restaurants are empty as punters are staying away. What will make us feel safer in restaurants? The answer may good old QR code. QR is a short from Quick Response Code, a type of matrix barcode invented Masahiro Hara in 1994 for Japanese car makers …[ read more ]
JioMeet zooms in 2.13mln downloads daily on Zoom and over 300mln users world-wide (March 2020) means we are now trapped in Zoomland for remote work for years to come. Or are we? New entrant JioMeet has launched a copy of Zoom but free and no limit on 40min only slots. Browser based, no need to …[ read more ]
Lockdowners are reported to be missing hairdresser visits the most, but restaurants came close second. The original meaning of the word means ‘to restore, to revive’ – from French of course- offering revival thru chat, laugh and good food in great surroundings. The concept is relatively modern, from about 1765 when a French chef started …[ read more ]
Bookshelf Games Lockdown continues along with the rise of new Zoom-etiquette, disrupting the established way people perceive others with screen glitches and sound latency problems. Zoom delays what people say by a fraction, as the computer needs time to ‘piece together’ what was said to protect loss of any speech. This is well intended but …[ read more ]
Gaffes on Zoom, multi-screen fest and Covid19 tech meets Glasto, it is all in the working week for your Home Alone troops. Party for One in Zoom? Lockdown continues and Zoom users are stepping out of the safe confines of small groups into the Great Unknown of Breakout Rooms, a transition not without it’s perils. …[ read more ]
Originally on Retail Week The question everyone is asking now, as the country is locked down, is when normality will resume and even to what extent it is possible to bring back ‘retail as usual’. I’m a lockdown veteran – martial law in Poland in 1981 and the fallout from Chernobyl – and my view …[ read more ]
Horror stories abound with a full on car crash when Dad is on high profile Zoom Videoconferencing and the kids waltz in, perfectly oblivious to the situation and 3 mln viewers on the other side. The correct behaviour is not to panic but to bring them into the meeting and introduce them and their Teddy …[ read more ]
Originally published on Retail Week Twenty-five years ago, Cyberia opened as the first cafe with full internet access in the world, located at 39 Whitfield Street in London’s Fitzrovia.Created to give Londoners a glimpse of the newly accessible internet, Cyberia was a warm, non-geeky place, infused with the smell of coffee from the second Lavazza coffee machine in town (the first …[ read more ]
April Fools Cancelled Not business as usual this month, as instead of preparing Easter Sales, our remote teams are facing an increasingly uphill struggle to keep the show on the road. The economy is currently experiencing a death by a thousand cuts and with the current predictions of recovery being that of an “I” shape, …[ read more ]
