Advantia Business Solutions Blog

As we all know, the clocks are going back an hour on 25th October . For many of us this now means travelling and working in the dark.  Employee safety has to be a top priority for any employer. While many companies are only aware of the requirement for safety within the workplace, many provide less attention towards safety when travelling or working in the dark. This becomes a more pressing issue in October because of the clocks going back. This difference means a lot of us will find ourselves travelling home, going to meetings or visiting customers in darkness of later afternoon. There are many tips that employers should give to workers for when they travel after dark: Safety garments: High visibility vests and waistcoats are essential for all workplaces, and they can be a life saver out on the road, making people a lot more visible if they are on a bike, next to a broken down car or even walking down a dark road.  If it’s required for a job, employers must pr...

We can all feel it, the cold weather is returning! But we can’t escape the fact that 98% of workers are affected by minor illnesses each year. None of us want to get ill and we try and prevent it as much as possible, but if you work in an office you need to be even more aware because your workplace may be making you even more ill than you realise. One of the few reasons for workplace illnesses is that people tend to spend more time indoors together because of the cold air. This increases the chances of illnesses spreading, especially within an office full of many colleagues.   And now for the gross bit… Bacteria lands on countless amounts of surfaces via sneezes, coughs and hands. An office commonly has shared equipment such as keyboards, telephones and desks and inevitably other people will be touching these surfaces and transmitting the bugs to their mouth or nose. Therefore, if these surfaces aren’t frequently cleaned then there is a very high chance the not-s...

For an easier understanding of selling add-on services, Advantia have launched a series of smart guides to help our members. The first ‘Smart Guide’ we are launching is on selling shredding, service supplied by Shred-it, and has been produced specifically for your sales people. It is designed to give a simple process to follow and all the tools needed to go out and sell this service into new and existing customers. This is a really easy way of increasing the turnover and profitability of an account and requires very little maintenance after the initial set up, it’s just a matter of invoicing on a monthly basis. “We currently have 8 customers set up with consoles….This generates sales of £367 per month with a profit of £125, which equates to £1,500 Per Year Profit and growing for signing them up and sending them an invoice each month and we are only scratching the service at the moment…On top of this we have a regular supply of bags and boxes that are getting shredded… We have i...