Making travel arrangements often involves more admin than you initially expect. From accommodation bookings to arranging transport, passes for local attractions, visas and more, it’s often a time-consuming slog. Outsourcing is a popular solution (and not only in the travel industry) for several reasons: It saves you time Many businesses outsource areas of daily operation…

In recent years, businesses that follow the maxim ‘work smart, not hard’ have all but displaced major industry competitors. Uber and Airbnb are two examples. Both are similar because they’ve used outsourcing to create profitable businesses without the usual associated overheads and risks. The benefits of outsourcing: Not sweating the small stuff Uber, the ride-sharing…

If your December holiday and New Year memories are fading as quickly as time is passing, then you may already be scheming about your first quarter break, perhaps even over Easter which is only a few weeks away! For those who have jobs that can be done online, planning a ‘working holiday’ is fairly simple….

Standing desks became the new craze when Dr James Levine coined the phrase “sitting is the new smoking”. Suddenly there was lots of scraping back of chairs and assembling of cardboard boxes to elevate laptops to eye-level. While standing for 8 hours is infinitely better for you than sitting for the same period, not everyone can…