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When you think of February the mind automatically jumps to Valentine's Day, but there's another extremely important event taking place right now. It's LGBT+ History Month and it's time to show it a little love.
Next week is National Apprenticeship Week. In normal circumstances there's nothing particularly unusual about that, after all it's a national awareness campaign that takes place every year, but this year is different. Like pretty much everything else right now, it's going virtual.
How much time do you spend on your phone and computer each day? The simple answer is ‘probably too much'.
If you are the CEO of a tech company perhaps the clearest indication that you are on to a winner is when your brand name becomes an everyday verb. For example, we no longer ‘search the internet' – we just ‘Google'. Gone are the days where we ‘video call' our family and friends, we simply ‘FaceTime' them instead.
Let's be honest, we're all getting a bit sick of being told what we can't do. While it's clearly vital that we continue to follow the latest national guidance and adhere to the regulations laid out to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 – life in lockdown is tough enough without having to contend with a list of our favourite things we're no longer able to enjoy.
