Now, more than ever before in recent history, the UK is looking at its hospitals with an increased scrutinised eye. The current COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened the urgency felt that the NHS and the hospitals that they operate need funding poured into them as a service vital to our survival as a society.
01.04.2020
COVID-19 is forcing companies to adapt quickly to change and redesign their products or services or even create new ones to respond to the demands of millions of people self-isolating around the world. Maddyness has selected some examples of these pivots from the UK and beyond.
31.03.2020
In the face of one of the worst healthcare and economic crises of a lifetime, businesses and industries are being forced to come up with new, innovative solutions to a colossal problem. The old adage ‘innovate or die’, in every sense, has never felt more vital.
30.03.2020
As COVID-19 forces millions of people to self-isolate, Maddyness has picked 19 positive bits of news that should help your mind escape from these strange times.
28.03.2020
Airbnb announced a new global initiative to help house 100,000 healthcare professionals, relief workers, and first responders around the world during the COVID-19 crisis. Airbnb will waive all fees for stays arranged through this initiative.
27.03.2020
Edward Saperia, Dean of Newspeak House in London, has compiled a Coronavirus Tech Handbook. This handbook is a "crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak".
26.03.2020
When self-isolating and working from home, it is essential to use this time to keep on polishing your knowledge with new interesting things related to society, experiments, business, and success. Maddyness has selected some TV programmes and documentaries currently available on Netflix to watch while staying at home during the Coronavirus outbreak.
26.03.2020
The UK government is taking measures to financially support businesses across the country, so companies can retain their staff during the COVID-19 crisis.
25.03.2020
Working from home has traditionally been an exceptions approach with a strong preference by company's to have meetings and events in person. Now, however, as the impact of COVID-19 is felt across the world, home working is becoming a necessity as businesses attempt to keep staff ‘signed in’ and well whilst keeping business momentum going and revenues protected. We learn more from white.space, experts in corporate innovation.
25.03.2020
The Chancellor has set out a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19. This information is being updated regularly.
24.03.2020
Microsoft has announced that NHS staff will be able to use its Microsoft Teams solution for free so they can quickly communicate with their colleagues during the Coronavirus outbreak.
21.03.2020
This week, the disturbances around coronavirus rose and inboxes are being flooded by preventive and supportive emails from worried retailers sharing the measures they're taking following the government's advice, to struggling food providers saying they can't accept new orders, the list is long.
20.03.2020
Like many across the world, we’ve changed the way we work – our whole team is working remotely. We’ve been lucky: many of our team at Web Summit have decades’ experience working from home, while others are based in offices away from our Dublin, Ireland headquarters. We’d like to share some of the things that have made our transition to remote work as painless as possible. The first section deals with how our teams have adapted to working from home: the nuts and bolts of working remotely. The second deals with the broader, structural changes we’ve gone through as a company. We hope some of it helps.
18.03.2020
Working from home is not new, and widely adopted for a couple days a week especially in the media and technology sectors, but if we look at the surge of stock price for workplace software like Zoom, Slack and… Netflix, it seems investors are anticipating that the Coronavirus crisis will accelerate this trend, for greater numbers and for an extended period of time.
02.03.2020