COVID-19: Do you worry about safety?

COVID-19: Do you worry about safety for your employees and visitors?

Saint IT have a range of technology which helps keep employees and visitors safe, our entry systems come in three different sizes to suit any size of business or venue;

COVID-19: Do you worry about safety for your employees and visitors?

Here we are, after almost 2 years and Covid 19 is still with us and looks to follow us into 2022.

Yet again we’re being told of new variants and compulsory mask wearing.

You may wonder like us if it will ever go away completely or if we are to live with it for a very long time.

maybe its time to invest in technology to safeguard us against viruses like Covid-19

Saint IT have a range of technologies which helps keep employees and visitors safe, our entry systems come in three different sizes to suit any size of business or venue;

COVID-19 : How do you enhance safety

Covid-19: How do you improve safety measures:

– Temperature check
– Sanitiser dispenser, Model A
– Mask check (on or off)
– Facial recognition of registered individuals
– Can be integrated into door or barrier access systems
– Wifi or LAN connected
– Indicator lights
– Installation and support services

Restaurants, pubs, offices, manufacturing, retail outlets and venues are all seeing the benefit of this technology

This is part of a range of technology which Saint IT can provide to help combat covid-19 and keep our businesses and economy moving.

Contact us for pricing and further details.

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COVID-19: Do you worry about safety?

Green Internet Browsing

Our Safe Browsing Recommendation

For many years now Saint IT have recommended to all our clients that they use DuckduckGo as the primary browser / search engine to use. It is safe, fast and secure and they won’t track your browsing activity. This means you won’t be bombarded with unwanted products and your personal details are kept private.

We still recommend this browser now and many of our employees use this search engine every day. There is an app for Android and Apple devices and you can install the extension and set duckduck go as the default search engine on your PC too.

DuckDuckGo

Green Internet Browsing Recommendation

But maybe you’re not just worried about how your personal data is being used online? Maybe you’re also concerned about the environment? Do you know the damage that is being done by Big Tech companies? Are you wondering if there is more you can do? Well! the good news is YES! THERE IS…

Saint IT Ltd are now official supporters of Ecosia.org as the Green Internet Browsing Recommendation

Now you can use an internet search engine that gives back to the environment. Every time you search the internet ANOTHER TREE IS PLANTED.

Download the extension to your browser now or download the app for your mobile device from Google Playstore or the App Store. It literally is a no brainer. It’s still fast, still safe and secure but now you’re planting trees whilst you search too.

Don’t believe us? check this out: https://www.ecosia.org/

Ecosia: Plant Trees While You Search The Web

Ecosia use the profit they make from your searches to plant trees where they are needed most. Get the free browser extension and download the mobile app and plant trees with every search.

with this amazing organisation you literally save the world one search at a time.

At the time of writing this, just look at the stats from their own website:

15 million users

Broadband and Mobile Services

Saint IT specialise in solutions for the Small and Medium Enterprise. With our in-house expertise and partners, we offer a range of Broadband and Mobile services at competitive, flexible pricing.

If you would like to know how Saint IT can accelerate your growth, empower your employees and improve customer collaboration, contact our experienced friendly team for a chat today!

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The New Use of Technology in the Jobs Market

The new use of technology in the jobs market in recent months has seen seismic changes both for recruiters and candidates alike. Technology is now an essential part of both attracting, hiring as well as on-boarding new candidates. The use of remote meeting tools, such as Microsoft 365 Teams, has almost completely taken over the interview process. Since the start of 2020 remote meeting solutions were rarely used, with companies still preferring face to face meetings. Now however, this seismic shift, known as Covid-19, has overturned that. Almost 70% of all interviews now take place via digital means.

More Technology changes

I remember in the past you would be at a big disadvantage if you did not drive or have a car to get to work. These days, most Job specs will require you to work from home for at least some of the week. I wonder how long it will take before you will see requirements like “highspeed internet” and a “quiet office space at home” making it onto the job specs.

Attenti executive recruitment

Attenti executive recruitment is a long standing customer of Saint IT. We built a technology solution for Attenti, and provide ongoing support, which has enabled them to effectively reach their executive client base and importantly match them up with candidates. Using technology to match potential candidates with senior executive vacancies is at the core of what Attenti is able to offer. We are proud to be able to support this excellent SME.

Saint IT since our inception in 2016, specialises in providing IT Solutions for the small and medium enterprise. Saint IT supports businesses with work-anywhere-solutions through our partnership with Microsoft 365, NSN and others. Take a look at how we are supporting SMEs, not for profit and charity organisations by improving the use of digital technology in their businesses to first drive efficiencies and secondly increase productivity.

Saint IT offers the SME’s across the UK services for:

  • Managed IT Services
  • IT Consultancy
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Microsoft 365 solutions and support
  • Web design and hosting
  • Multi and hybrid cloud computing
  • Hardware provisioning
  • Network and telephony systems and support
  • Remote working and bring your own device (BYOD)
  • Business continuity services
  • Requirements management and system design
  • Project planning and delivery

Check us out on Linkedin: https://lnkd.in/dVBf55d

Saint IT MS 365 Services

0800 009 3064 /3065

https://attenti.co.uk

Attenti Recruitment | The New Use of Technology in the Jobs Market

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#smallbusiness

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#jobs

#workanywhere

#colchester

#Essex

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#staines

5 Tips For Your Small Business Home Office

5 Tips For Your Small Business Home Office

Many small business owners will spend between 10 to 14 hours a day sitting at their desk. Working all day in their home office, often all the attention is focused on growing the business, generating new sales, finding new customers, promoting products or services. All of these things are crucially important but it’s all to easy to neglect your own welfare. You must take time and spend money to look after your physical and mental health. Here are 5 tips for your small business home office, in no particular order. These will help you maintain your busy schedule and long hours stuck in your office whilst staying healthy and happy.

Why you should take your Home Office environment serious?

Maybe you previously worked for a large organisation? Maybe you didn’t need to look after your wellbeing so much because someone else was looking out for you. Did you ever get that email from HR, saying they’re coming round to do a “Workstation Assessment”? you probably thought, “I don’t have time for this”, but you went along with it anyway and before you realised, a new keyboard arrived on your desk, or a different chair suddenly appeared. All because your Workstation Assessment uncovered the fact you needed an ergonomic keyboard or lumber adjustment chair which was more suited to prevent that backache you sometimes get or prevent that RSI in your right hand.

Well, now you are your own boss and nobody else is going to look after you or your health. So take some time and consider your office environment, because now, more then ever, you can ill-afford to take time off work for health reasons.

Tip 1 – Spend some money

It seems obvious but spend a bit of money on good quality equipment!

All to often small business owners are trying to save money and minimise what they spend, but the result is they work in a damp basement office with poor ventilation or they are sitting on kitchen chairs for hours on end, or maybe they’re working on that 10 year old laptop with poor screen resolution because ” it still does the job”. Start with a decent quality desk chair which has more levers and buttons then a jumbo Jet to make sure you can get your sitting position just right. Forget popping into a high street store and pick up a nice looking, but utterly inadequate home study chair.

Steelcase Lets B Hi-Back
Task Chair with New Black Leather

Go to the professionals and let them advise you on what a good quality chair looks like. We bought our chair from https://www.2ndhnd.com/ A great company that offer refurbished office chairs. We did some research and we opted for a Steelcase Lets B Hi-Back Task Chair with New Black Leather for £149. It has all the adjustments I need to sit properly, its comfortable and looks great too.


Tip 2 – Don’t stare at your tiny 13″ laptop screen all day

Lightweight compact laptops are great… for resting on your lap…. whilst working on the train or in a hotel room. They are not designed for staring at for 12 hours a day whilst sitting in your office! that’s why they’re called “Laptops”. But you don’t need to spend a fortune on buying a new Desktop Computer. Just get a good quality additional screen (or even a 3rd screen). Make sure it is as least 24″ with a minimum resolution of 1920×1080. We bought this basic DELL E2416H Screen, for less then £120. Its a few years old now but its clear, sharp image and screen size means I’m never straining to read anything on the display.

You can set up your windows environment so that you can extend your desktop to this second screen (hit Windows+ P on your keyboard). Now you can utilise all the available space for the hundreds of windows you have open at any one time (if you’re anything like me). Just check what connection you have on your laptop to make sure you buy a screen with a compatible connector. (I.e. HDMI, DVI, VGA or DisplayPort) adapters do exist from one type to another but they’re not always that great!

We’re using a laptop stand to bring the laptop up to correct height as well.

Tip 3 – Have some good quality entertainment available.

Newsflash! You are your own boss now! You want to watch a bit of TV whilst you’re doing some light admin work? Maybe you fancy blasting your favourite tune on Radio 1? Nobody is going to stop you. Remember you will probably be in this same position in another 10 hours from now. So if you can’t take a break let the break come to you right at your desk. We bought this Panasonic TX-24J330B HD Ready TV with Freeview HD , Black for £149. Now I’m in my happy place watching the Netherlands work their way to the finals in the Euro 2020/2021 whilst I’m working. Although to be honest I might have to move over to the lounge for the big screen for that.

And when I’m not watching the footy? The screen comes with a HDMI port so I can make great use it for my 3rd screen when I’m doing development work and just need another screen to lay things side by side.

Tip 4 – Posture is Everything!

So a good chair is king but without the ability to set your screens at the correct height your posture is still going to suffer and you run the risk of a trip to the GP to get some medication for that chronic back ache again! We bought these highly versatile HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand for 13 to 27 inch Screens, Gas Spring Monitor Arm for Curved Flat Screens, Monitor Mount Support VESA 75/100 mm for just £41.66.

They come as single or double arms and can work well with different sizes and makes of screens. Our workstation looks cool and with all the screens neatly aligned next to each other despite them being slightly different sizes and they are all at the correct eye level to spare my back and neck. In addition because I’m also utilising the laptop as a screen We’re using a laptop stand to bring the laptop up to correct height as well. Here’s a great example of a stylish but cost effective laptop stand https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07P6X63SD/.

And by the way another important benefit of getting a laptop stand and 2nd screen is so that you can stop using that tiny laptop keyboard and mouse pad and get a proper full size keyboard shaped exactly to your hand positions if you need and as a proper mouse. the choices are endless, just try a few and see which are most comfortable for you. RSI is no joke and once you start having problems they’re not always easy to cure.

We bought these highly versatile HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand for 13 to 27 inch Screens, Gas Spring Monitor Arm for Curved Flat Screens, Monitor Mount Support VESA 75/100 mm for just £41.66.

Tip 5 – Make your life simple

So now you’ve got a few gadgets to make your day more enjoyable and keep you in the tip top shape that you are. There is a few things we added to our home office station to finish it off. We now have multiple screens, radio , TV and a Boom Mic for our virtual conferences I needed a simple method of managing all these audio devices. So we bought this very simple Premium 12 Input 2 Bus Mixer with XENYX Mic Preamps/Compressors/British EQs/24 Bit Multi FX Processor and USB/Audio Interface https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008O51872/ for only £72.50.

Now, if the phone rings and the TV is on or the radio in on, there is no mad rush to grab the mouse and mute my audio or find the remote to turn the TV Off, just a quick slide of the main mix slider and everything goes quiet. If we’re in a Teams meeting with a client we can adjust the sound quality, the microphone levels and even the EQ without ever needing to touch the PC.

I know this is a bit overkill for some people. But the point is this; invest in your Home Office so that your time spent in there, which is extensive, keeps you fit and healthy and is enjoyable and fun. We could go on about all the other gadgets we have brought into our home office. From the books on the desk, which I can pick up and read without ever leaving my desk. Or the foot stool under the desk which helps with my posture again. Or even my special VDU varifocal glasses, (bet you didn’t even know they existed? – But ask your Optician). The list goes just goes on and on.

But Don’t forget…

No matter how nice your Home office is now, its important to make sure you do take time away too. Get some fresh air, go for a walk, have your lunch in the garden. Maybe meet a friend for a coffee. A change of scenery does you a world of good.

If you’ve enjoyed this article “5 tips for your small business home office” then leave us a comment below. If you need any help in finding the right equipment for you then just drop us an email at enquiries@saint-it.co.co.uk Our helpful sales team will be only too pleased to assist you.

Here are 5 tips for your small business home office.

If you’ve decided to revisit and improve your Home office too then send us a pic and leave us a comment below.

We might even send you a prize for the best Home Office kit-out we have found!

If you need any help in finding the right equipment for you then just drop us an email at enquiries@saint-it.co.co.uk Our helpful sales team will be only too pleased to assist you.

Are you googled out yet?

In a world of Fake News, online shopping and Social Media can you really trust your search engine?

Do they really give you honest answers to your searches?

How do you know if your top search answer really is the best one?

Is the information you searched for genuine or is it sponsored by someone standing to make a lot of money?

The truth is you cant be sure entirely, so you should never completely trust any search engine. Don’t assume they will give you honest, unbiased, information without hidden agenda’s. But maybe you are all worn down by it and googled out? Maybe you don’t care anymore?

GoogleSearch

What can you do

We recommend that you start making changes to counter this kind of browser espionage and start implementing your own counter measures.

The first thing to do is to change your Search engine. Find a search engine which  Does not track your movements.

Secondly find a search engine that does not present you with search answers from its own Subsidiaries or partners to try and trap you in their web of profit making.

We recommend you change your search engine to DuckDuckGo on all your devices They don’t track you and they won’t present their own interests to you but give unbiased answers

Here is a great article that explains in more details by Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckgo. 

And yes we did start this article by saying don’t trust anyone entirely but in our experience, DuckDuckGo lives up to its pledges.

https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-use-DuckDuckGo-instead-of-Google

 

 

Come to The Live and Let Live in Colchester

The live and Let Live

Come to the Live and Let Live in Colchester. they are one of our valued customers. Geraldine and the team are cooking up a storm in the kitchen complemented by your tipple of choice. If real ale is your thing then this is the place for you.

Fancy a Tipple?

Saint IT provides IT solutions for the hospitality sector. We have unique customer marketing skills which means we create and re-launch websites that attract customers and help your business succeed. Pubs have had a tough year so why not just “eat out to help out” and come to the Live And Let Live? You don’t need a government scheme for that…

We recommend paying them a visit:


Saint IT offers the SME’s across the UK services for:

  • Managed IT Services
  • IT Consultancy
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Microsoft 365 solutions and support
  • Web design and hosting
  • Multi and hybrid cloud computing
  • Hardware provisioning
  • Network and telephony systems and support
  • Remote working and bring your own device (BYOD)
  • Business continuity services
  • Requirements management and system design
  • Project planning and delivery

https://saint-it.co.uk/
https://lnkd.in/du6y5wM The Live and Let Live

#findapro

#hospitality

#restaurant

The Live and let Live in Colchester

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#webdeveloper

#webdesign

#smallbusinesswebsite

#smallbussiness

#hospitalitytechnology


We are a proud supporter of local charities and NFP organisations in Colchester

Beaconhouse Ministries

Colchester Cap Debt Centre


Saint IT Support the Government Scheme to plan for growth

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/build-back-better-our-plan-for-growth