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NEWS BOSS Today #48

“The office will become
Q&A funds of the increased grants it has
Filby concluded by stressing the been making and the limiting of its like a church where you
importance of building and sustaining fundraising capabilities.
relationships with clients, because while Drakeford finally wrapped the day up go once a week to
existing client relationships are easier by thanking Eliza Filby for being ‘right learn and to be inspired.
and quicker to sustain in a virtual world, on the button’, promising that BOSS
it is more difficult to build a new client would be offering more virtual hook-ups Collaboration and learning
base online. The day concluded with a and encouraging members that “As an will happen in the office,
wide-ranging Q&A session hosted by industry we are not ‘sleepy stationery but the home is where
Drakeford, inevitably including questions salesmen and women’: we are right in
on the future of the workplace, but also the epicentre of change. And, whatever the concentrated
specific queries about the structure of that change will be, BOSS will be there to work will be done.”
the industry, the future of rebates and support the industry through it.”
‘soft money’ and the effect on Charity
Eliza Filby

ACCORDINGLY, THE INDUSTRY NEEDS TO BE MORE

AGILE TO BE ABLE TO PIVOT WITH CUSTOMERS, AND

THIS STARTS WITH RECOGNISING WHAT CLIENTS’

PRIORITIES CURRENTLY ARE:

A focus on health and A need for more As employers are legally
hygiene, rather than cost: technology: the use of responsible for making
obviously, this means a technology in offices all their staff workplaces
need for PPE, but also will accelerate, not least are health and safety
signage products etc. because computers don’t compliant, it is possible
get sick! This could also that they will give their
A focus on workers’ make many services and home workers the funds
wellbeing, productivity supplies redundant. to ensure this.
and loyalty: companies
will need to prove to Home offices will need
their staff that they are upgrading: home working
safe places to work, so will not go away, so
providing safe communal home office supplies will
areas and training on become as important as
healthy working will be ‘conventional’ workplace
important. supplies and hence be a
crucial opportunity for
the industry.

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