Do you employ remote or home workers?

Remote Employment and BT Business have launched a national search to find the UK’s most innovative business that runs a remote workforce for The Remote Employer Award sponsored by BlackBerry®. This award is aimed at identifying and honouring budding enterprises that can  demonstrate how remote working has made a beneficial impact on their business.

Award winning website, Remote Employment, the No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life. The Awards are the only business awards to recognise employers for their flexible working solutions and employees for showing that remote working can improve business productivity, improve work life balance and help the environment.

Last year’s winners, Cuddledry, used remote working to the advantage of all, demonstrating that home businesses can significantly exceed financial projections. Winning the Award has been a fantastic boost to the Cuddledry brand and a hugely flattering acknowledgment of the company’s commitment to flexible and rewarding working practices.

Ken Sheridan, organiser of the awards and co-founder of Remote Employment, a job site specialising in flexible, remote and home working, expects to unearth an abundance of inventive pioneers who champion flexibility with remote working solutions. Ken said: “Remote working is the future! We've discovered that employees and employers are seeking far more flexibility.”

There are many reasons why remote working is idea for employees and some companies find it most beneficial to bring quality people back into the workforce who, for their own reasons (including juggling a career and family life), no longer wish to commute or work in an office environment.

This year’s winner will be awarded with a fully installed BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express solution and three BlackBerry® smartphones with complimentary data connection for the first 6 months thanks to BT. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express enables businesses with an existing Microsoft® Exchange Server® or Windows® Small Business Server to quickly and easily get started with the BlackBerry solution so that mobile employees can access all the information they need when on the move.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express lets users:

• Wirelessly synchronize their email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks
• Manage email folders and search email on the mail server remotely
• Book meetings and appointments, check availability and forward calendar attachments
• Set an out-of-office reply
• Edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using Documents To Go®
• Access files stored on the company network
• Use mobile applications to access business systems behind the firewall

The Remote Worker Awards is open to all individuals and any company in the UK, regardless of size, industry sector or turnover. The Award is also open to companies planning to implement a remote workforce.

Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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£15K Home Business To Be Won

The Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business, and Helen O’ Grady Drama Academy are giving away a home based business worth £15k!

The Helen O’ Grady Special Award is the flagship Award in The Remote Worker Awards, which aims to raise awareness for remote and home working as the modern way of working.

The Remote Worker Awards has been organised by Remote Employment, a job site specialising in flexible, remote and home working.

The competition is open to everyone and so easy to win! Entrants with an interest or an enthusiasm for social interaction and communication with young people have to show how they would combine their love of drama or their experience of teaching children. The best entries will be in the running to win a successful full time business from a home office.

For more information browse www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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Are You A Wannabe Internet Entrepreneur?

Remote Employment and BT Business are calling wannabe internet entrepreneurs and webmasters who want their own business. Those hungry enough to pull out all the stops to ensure that their entry is the best to impress The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award judges to hand over a new website build for their on line business idea.

This Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award is open to anyone who wants to start up a new online business. Entrants are invited to submit ideas for a new website business or online ecommerce business and the winner will receive their own website worth £1,500 to start up and run an internet business from home.

All they have to do is answer questions such as:
* demonstrate their potential website business
* what they want to start up and why
* how their products or service is unique and innovative
* if it is targeted to a niche audience
* what type of site they want
* how it will fill a need within their audience's community
* why they should win The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award
* what impact their new internet business will have on the marketplace
* why this new online business is the most engaging
* how the entrant will market the internet business to make it a success.

With the recent upheavals in the job markets, millions of people have been hankering to start up their own internet business, whether it is full time or part time running alongside their job or career, now is the chance to impress the judges with their fabulous ideas.

The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award is ideal for any new business, as well as Artists and Creatives, authors and writers, book clubs, community groups, eBayers,hobby-ists, home industry crafts people, professionals and freelancers, party plan agents, teachers going into business and graduates and students who want to start an online profile. They will be able to open a cyber shop, upload a full catalogue of products through an XML feed, start networking online or offer a professional service to the world at large.

Paula Wynne, organiser of the awards and co-founder of Remote Employment, a job site specialising in flexible, remote and home working, expects to see a range of innovative internet business ideas coming through and encourages entrants to enter all relevant awards for a higher chance of winning. Paula is also offering a copy of her book, Create A Successful Website, which is published in August, as runner up prizes.

Don't wait until entries close on the 31st July - get some PR for your business idea by being chosen as a semi finalist.

Enter at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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‘Rottweiler Apprentice’ Jumps At Awards

Following a highly successful inaugural awards in 2009, Remote Employment in association with BT Business, today launches The 2010 Remote Worker Awards. The Remote Worker Awards is delighted to welcome Claire Young from The Apprentice to the prestigious panel of judges.

Claire Young shot to fame in series 4 of the smash hit BBC 1 ´The Apprentice´. She was the no-nonsense sales woman who infuriated, then won over viewers to reach the final - becoming the biggest ever bookies favourite to win in Apprentice history. Nicknamed the ´Rottweiler´ for her ability to go after whatever she wants; many admired her nonstop drive and were gripped by her transformation throughout the series.

Claire jumped at the chance to judge The Remote Worker Awards for it is unique as the only business awards recognising employers for their flexible working solutions and employees for showing that remote and home based working can improve business productivity, improve work life balance and help the environment.

Claire will help judges Karen Darby, Richard Alvin, Debbie Bird and others to choose companies and individuals who champion this modern way of working from entries across 10 award categories.

Claire said: "I am delighted to be supporting The Remote Worker Awards! I am keen to highlight how remote and home working benefits and gives people a better quality work life."

Post Apprentice life has been a whirlwind as she successfully manages her business and media career. Claire launched a prestigious venue management company, specialising in weddings, called Elegant Venues.

Claire is also all set to give her ‘Rottweileress’ skills to a new passion called Girls Out Loud www.girlsoutloud.org.uk and will become a regular presenter for GMTV. She has become an established public speaker and writing her own book! Claire will be presenting a new business TV show starting Autumn 2010 called The Hirer. She is passionate about working with young people on enterprise and works with a number of Government groups.

Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

National Search To Unearth Remote Working Champions

Remote Employment and BT Business have launched a national search to find the UK’s most innovative business that runs a remote workforce for The Remote Employer Award sponsored by BlackBerry®. This award is aimed at identifying and honouring budding enterprises that can demonstrate how remote working has made a beneficial impact on their business.

Award winning website, Remote Employment, the No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

The Awards are the only business awards to recognise employers for their flexible working solutions and employees for showing that remote working can improve business productivity, improve work life balance and help the environment.
Last year’s winners, Cuddledry, used remote working to the advantage of all, demonstrating that home businesses can significantly exceed financial projections. Winning the Award has been a fantastic boost to the Cuddledry brand and a hugely flattering acknowledgment of the company’s commitment to flexible and rewarding working practices.

Ken Sheridan, organiser of the awards and co-founder of Remote Employment, a job site specialising in flexible, remote and home working, expects to unearth an abundance of inventive pioneers who champion flexibility with remote working solutions. Ken said: “Remote working is the future! We've discovered that employees and employers are seeking far more flexibility.”

There are many reasons why remote working is idea for employees and some companies find it most beneficial to bring quality people back into the workforce who, for their own reasons (including juggling a career and family life), no longer wish to commute or work in an office environment.

This year’s winner will be awarded with a fully installed BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express solution and three BlackBerry® smartphones with complimentary data connection for the first 6 months thanks to BT.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express enables businesses with an existing Microsoft® Exchange Server® or Windows® Small Business Server to quickly and easily get started with the BlackBerry solution so that mobile employees can access all the information they need when on the move.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express lets users:

• Wirelessly synchronize their email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks
• Manage email folders and search email on the mail server remotely
• Book meetings and appointments, check availability and forward calendar attachments
• Set an out-of-office reply
• Edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using Documents To Go®
• Access files stored on the company network
• Use mobile applications to access business systems behind the firewall
The Remote Worker Awards is open to all individuals and any company in the UK, regardless of size, industry sector or turnover. The Award is also open to companies planning to implement a remote workforce.
Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

Have Buggy – Will Travel

Single Mum, Laura Morris, from Warwick, Warwickshire who runs her own home business Rent a Buggy has entered the 2010 Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business, and hopes to get her buggy business on the road if she wins.

Rentabuggy allows families to ease cash flow and rent top selling pushchairs on a monthly basis. They also provide Baby Equipment hire for Holiday Rentals including a wide range of products (highchairs, travel cots etc) and cover both services Nationwide.

Laura Morris started Rentabuggy in 2008 after Laura met a friend who forgot her pushchair on a shopping trip. They joked that it would be a good idea if there was a shop where they could rent one for the day.

Laura works from home and loves the flexibility to do the school runs and other activities for 4 year-old Ashleigh. She entered this award to showcase Rentabuggy and to show that she is dedicated to providing help for families during the economical climate.

Laura said: ‘I started Rentabuggy at a time of ‘recession’. I thought long and hard whether it was the right thing to do, but then I realised that is was perfect as it was providing families with financial help. Having a baby is expensive and even the essential items can tot up!’

Laura has started joining partnerships with hotels, campsites and other organizations to promote the holiday rental service. Entering The Remote Worker Awards is a great way to recognize that most successful companies actually start up as a home business.

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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Musical Signs For Parenting Award

Rebecca Boulton, from Tamworth, who founded Musical Signers, has entered the 2010 Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business, and hopes to achieve national recognition for the deaf community if she wins.

Musical Signers started as a Baby Signing Company in 2005, when Rebecca wanted to take her baby daughter to classes. Although she quickly realized that she couldn’t afford classes, it also dawned on her that she was actually more qualified than the local teacher so she set up on her own.

Five years on and the company has grown to six staff and teach Baby Signing, Signed Literacy and Deaf Awareness in many children’s centres, schools and nurseries, as well as offering a number of British Sign Language training courses accredited by Signature.

Rebecca entered The Babyworld Parentprenuer Award to highlight the challenges that she overcame to find her ideal job, working around her young family, and to encourage others to believe in themselves and strive to achieve their dreams. It is also a fantastic opportunity for Musical Signers, which employs a mix of deaf and hearing staff, to highlight the issue of Deaf Awareness and encourage more people to learn to sign, on both a local and a national level.

Musical Signers are unique in that they run nationally recognised qualifications for people working within the deaf community and they use sign language to support the learning of ALL children. This not only breaks down barriers between the deaf and hearing communities, but it can help improve literacy skills in hearing children too. Signed Literacy can help to aid comprehension, expand vocabulary, improve attention span, aid spelling and offer a multi-sensory learning experience.

Remote working has been key to developing the business as all staff members have very young children and are looking for a quality work life. Recently Musical Signers started franchising the business to offer their service to others.

Rebecca said: “We are an innovative business and have carved ourselves a positive reputation locally. This simply wouldn’t be possible without the benefits of remote working. The Parentprenuer Award is perfect for us because the business fits in so well around my own family and I have had the satisfaction of passing these benefits on to my staff and their families.”

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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