If you often find yourself drifting off and wasting time at work, you’re not alone. A new study has revealed the true extent of the UK’s procrastination problem. The survey, commissioned by musicMagpie, found that the average Brit spends 2 hours and 9 minutes each day procrastinating at work, which is costing businesses over £21 billion per year.
Unsurprisingly, phones are a major source of procrastination, with the average UK worker spending 28 minutes each day using messaging apps, 7 minutes on Instagram, 16 minutes on Facebook and 5 minutes on Twitter.
IKEA – through TaskRabbit – is expanding its home assembly service to six new areas, meaning customers shopping in stores and online can now take advantage of the service - making the IKEA experience even more convenient than ever before*.
Launching in Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Gateshead, Southampton and Exeter at the end of January, “TaskRabbit will be able to help shoppers in a total of 27 locations throughout the UK. IKEA’s relationship with TaskRabbit aims to help customers with all their needs in and around the home, from furniture assembly and wall mounting to minor home...
A project designed to ease the stress and anxiety associated with adolescent girls has won a big boost, thanks to the team at Plymouth Science Park.
'Big Sis C.I.C.' aims to provide mentoring from female university students, who are studying education, to girls who are about to enter secondary schools in Plymouth.
The idea is that they will be able to provide an informal discussion in the safe environment of a school so that physical, emotional and practical needs are addressed.
It’s designed to help girls who might be experiencing issues surrounding adolescence....
Park users in Heavitree will soon be able to grab a coffee and a cake while on the go, thanks to a grant from Exeter City Council.
Community charity Park Life Heavitree is building a café and community facility in Heavitree Pleasure Ground.
The café will offer affordable, locally-sourced food and drink and the building will include toilets and a community space that will be able to be hired by local groups.
Work is expected to start in late spring with the building finished by the end of the year.
The exciting facility is being made possible partly due to a...
Exeter School is pleased to complete this year's Oxbridge admissions process with the announcement that five pupils have been offered places This year's selection of candidates includes two head boys - current and former - and the deputy head boy. Former Head Boy Ben Harvey has an unconditional place to study Natural Science at Queens' College Cambridge. He said he was delighted with his place and was very grateful to all the staff who have supported him through his A Levels and after he finished school. "They were always willing to give up their time to give advice and I am sure this,...
Exeter’s best charity pub quiz is back, and takes place at WESC Foundation on Thursday 5th March 2020.
Bring together the sharpest minds from the office, and gather round your brainiest friends for a night of pub quizzing.
Money raised this year will help projects like providing day time support, activities and respite for blind or partially sighted young adults with additional needs who live in the community. In the past these events tend to raise around £2,000 and make a huge difference to the unique service we are able to provide.
The biggest barriers to South West businesses making the most of technology have been revealed.
Cost, lacking the knowledge to make the right decisions and the time to focus on improvements to existing technology are the three top barriers according to a new survey.
Exeter-based technology support and strategy firm Timewade carried out the regional survey, in partnership with Tech South West, to shed light on how firms are using technology and uncover reasons behind the region’s productivity gap.
According to the Office for National Statistics, the South West has...
Earlier this month, 57-year-old music instructor Oliver William Felix Gibbons pleaded guilty to exceeding the speed limit on the A361 at South Molton last year in May while driving a Peugeot 206. Gibbons explained to the court that he made a terrible mistake in thinking that an open road gave him permission to drive like Steve McQueen. Speeding offenses such as these have been rife in Devon as well as Cornwall, accounting for 9 out of 10 traffic violations in the counties during the course of 2018-19. In reality, this equates to approximately 47,272 drivers caught driving over the speed...
