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Bristol Spaceworks, a social enterprise company which serves small and local businesses, has acquired a co-working facility on Wilder Street. The new premises, Redbrick House, enables the company to provide a four-floor co-working space for freelancers, start-ups and small businesses in the city. The site has desks, studio spaces, meeting rooms and a “break-out area”. […]

Fluid Branding, a promotional merchandise company, has relocated its headquarters. The successful company is spread over many different locations, including seven UK offices, Dublin, Amsterdam, Malta and China and with two partnership ventures in the US. It was founded in Cornwall and it has not moved from its roots, relocating from St Austell to the […]

Bishop Fleming, an accountancy and advisory business, plans to move into brand new premises in 2020. Its current building is in Queen’s Square, Bristol, and it is planning to move to the top floor and roof terrace of 10 Templeback.

Specialists in commercial property, London & Cambridge Property (LCP), has opened a new office in Bristol.

Customers being put off by unhelpful or unfriendly reception areas is a widespread problem in the B2B sector. When you don’t have a “customer-facing” element to your workplace, it can be easy to slide into functional, unfriendly presentation methods. Another sector which can suffer from this is the small and micro business, which even if they need to speak to customers directly may not have enough staff to “waste” someone at the front desk all day.

The Mall at Cribbs Causeway has signed with two new retailers to occupy units.

Premier Forest Group, a timber company, has opened a new office in Weston super Mare, North Somerset. This is its eighth UK premises; the others are located in Birmingham, Berkshire, Crumlin, Doncaster, Cornwall and Haverfordwest, plus offices in Ireland.

A new designer outlet village in Gloucestershire has revealed its plans.

Accurate monitoring of sickness absences is vital in any workplace. This means something more trackable than a phone-call, or an email to their line manager.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that EU member states must ensure their employers set up: “an objective, reliable and accessible system enabling the duration of time worked each day by each worker to be measured.”

More and more workplaces are needing to grapple with the additional needs of remote workers, as that option becomes steadily more popular. Over the last ten years, the number of UK workers moving into remote working positions has increased by almost 250,000 according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

With the summer holiday season well and truly approaching, your company might already have fallen foul of the many problems caused by out-of-date and inefficient holiday booking procedures.