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At Sambastream, we are trying to build the Future Workplace.

What does that mean?

The Future Workplace, is a term we coined to describe our ideal workplace. If you are a project manager trying to manage your local team, international teams, intergalatic teams whilst managing "a complex set of stakeholders". You know what we are talking about.

(April 13, 2010 - Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images Europe)

Today David Cameron was discussing flexible working at a Celebrating Women's Organisation at Southwark. There is a benefit to both Employees and Business Owners to support flexible working. It enables Employees to balance their work and lives, whether the Employee is a carer for family members, or whether it is for the flexibility to spend time on other commitments. For Business Owners, their is a benefit to support remote working as it enables their companies to retain staff or access a talent pool of professional employess at a lower cost based on part-time hours.

SambaJAM aims to support such opportunities, enabling employees and business owners to work securely and productively whether in the same office or from remote locations, such as working from home.


SambaJAM provides a structured way for businesses to manage their employees and their work, whether it is a financial controller's excel spreadsheet, a solicitor's legal document or an editor's final draft. SambaJAM enables you to create flexible work areas online to share documents and view auditing trails and activity feeds that provide you with the confidence and transparency that your remote workers are deliverying.

If flexible working is important to you, why not try out SambaJAM. Visit our product site at www.sambajam.com or contact us at www.sambajam.com/contact

Yesterday the big news was the UK economy grew a WHOLE 0.1% last quarter! This means the official end of the worst recession in peace time history, although there are many warnings that we're not completely out of the woods yet.

So does that mean we'll be returning to business as usual? Of course not! Recessions bring change, and while businesses will hopefully start to grow again, some long term trends have been accelerated by the recession and will start to become very obvious from 2010 onwards:

• Remote working - Offices have become increasingly mobile over the past decade, but with businesses looking to save operating costs on office space during the recession, even more businesses are starting to encourage home working for their staff. Forrester predicts that in the next 5 years, 43% of staff will be telecommuting regularly.

With the cold weather thawing now, the first few weeks of this month saw the UK snowed under for several days with up to 20% of the work force staying at home during the "snow days". The Centre for Economics and Business Research (cebr) predicted that this cost the British Economy approximately £900 million for each snow day we suffered.

The lost productivity from snow days leads to problems for both you and your staff:

• Drop in revenue - If you can't work or deliver services to your customers on snow days, you could stand to see your revenue drop significantly on those days