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What is Covid-19 teaching businesses about the future of the UK workplace? Onecom hosted a virtual roundtable of business leaders at small and medium-sized businesses to delve into some of the biggest challenges facing organisations as lockdown measures continue to change. A range of thought-provoking insights came out as the leaders from a range of […]

We recently ran a ‘virtual’ online round table to delve into the challenges many industries have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, read the full report here: http://staging.onecom.co.uk/onecom-virtual-round-table/ In addition, the SME leaders shared their top tips on making remote working and working from home, work effectively. Communication: Revise your communication strategy to accommodate the use […]

There has been a lot of change in the last few months. With the sudden shift to a working from home environment for a lot of businesses, we look at the top 4 biggest challenges people have found: 1) Outdated or legacy telecom products Many of our customers are already using cloud-based phone systems; however, […]

We are delighted to announce our first acquisition since we secured backing and a £100m investment package from LDC last year. We are pleased to welcome Glamorgan Telecom Group, it’s staff and senior leadership team, including chief executive officer Kelly Bolderson into Onecom. Glamorgan are a Cardiff-headquartered group and will strengthen our presence in South […]

Following our recent assessment by Investors In People, we’re very proud to announce that we have breezed through the assessment and hit Gold Standard! This new accreditation in people management places Onecom within the top 25 employers of this internationally recognised scheme for the very first time. Since our last assessment in 2016 (for which […]

The buzz around 5G has been going on for a while now, with a lot of excitement around what it can deliver, mixed with some controversy along the way as well. Although full deployment can take time and we’re not there yet, what is agreed is that 5G will certainly greatly change both social and […]

The telecoms industry is often guilty of not breaking things down simply for the masses. With many businesses running at a fast pace with a stretch on resources, there is often little time to understand all the information and work out precisely what means what. That’s why we are trying to help make things as […]

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is growing in popularity for business as an alternative to the traditional landline and mobile phone calls. There are multiple benefits to using VoIP for business, take a look at our top 5 reasons we think your business could benefit:   1) Cost Savings A VoIP telephone system uses Internet […]

Last month we talked about planning for our ‘new normal’ and how we at Onecom have quickly adapted to the new challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the table. We’ve since done a fair bit of research, and the results of our latest poll has revealed the most common tech and communication challenges […]

With the current disruption to businesses globally due to Covid-19, Vonage was one of our key technology providers. Vonage enabled us to seamlessly transition all our employees from working in our offices to working from home overnight while continuing to offer our 90,000+ business customers access to our contact services. Chris James, Head of Business […]