Source: Castleton Technology Housing organisations are faced with some difficult decisions regarding their staffing. Never has there been more pressure to provide vital support and services to tenants, but in other areas where staff can’t be redeployed, staff are being faced with furlough and even redundancies. Castleton Technology has put its own measures in place…
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General News
The new norm, for now…
In the 18 months I’ve been with Catalyst, the organisation and technology have both undergone a huge amount of change. From having 240 hours of downtime on the telephony system in 12 months, to failing SANs four years behind patching cycles and non-redundant networking, we had to devise and deliver a major foundational change programme…
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Aiming for business as usual…
As we’ve reported throughout this issue of Housing Technology, our impression is that most housing providers, IT suppliers and their staff are coping admirably well with the impact of coronavirus on their operations. Housing providers’ widespread adoption over the past few years of web-based business applications and cloud/hosted IT services has meant that they have…
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Remote working – A project manager’s story
Millions now join me as a home-based worker during the lockdown. But could I have imagined providing board and shelter to another family at a time when housing providers have suspended new moves? In mid-March, I reconnected with a friend who had been made homeless after fleeing an abusive partner. She had then received an…
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£1,200 raised for The Big Issue Foundation at Housing Technology 2020
We are delighted to have raised £1,200 for The Big Issue Foundation at the Housing Technology 2020 conference last month. Housing Technology CEO George Grant provided copies of Big Issue ambassador Sabrina Cohen-Hatton’s book The Heat of the Moment following her keynote speech and collected donations from our generous attendees which raised £600. Housing Technology…
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XMReality & DtL’s excellent AR adventure
I recently took a trip to the Silicon Valley of Sweden, a city called Linkoping, which is about two hours south of Stockholm. The reason for this Nordic excursion came about when I spotted a post from a company specialising in augmented reality (AR). Now, if you hear the term AR, you may immediately jump…
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