There’s no denying that times are increasingly difficult for everyone, businesses included.  Costs are going up in every space (staffing, energy, rent, resources) good team members are becoming harder to find and many of us are still dealing with a hangover from Covid with lasting financial impact.   And without wanting to wallow in doom and gloom, it’s looking like we might be here for a while!  

It’s easy to batten down the hatches in times of crisis but there is still so much we can do to try to make savings in our businesses to help weather the storm a little and before we have to resort to more drastic measures. 

Reduce Time Tied Up In Meetings 

If we’ve learnt anything in the last few years it’s that the majority of time we spend in face to face meetings is not necessary! It ties up valuable staff time, it takes resources and office space and quite often, what we get out of them is not what we put in.  Could you switch to remote meetings? Reduce the number of them right down? Or perhaps put a time limit on them – 10 productive minutes is far better than an hour of dithering! 

Reduce Office Space 

If you’ve resisted home or hybrid working for staff, now might be the time to give it some consideration.  You’ll save on office rental, equipment and energy bills, never has it been more important to reduce those costs.  The technology exists to enable your staff to work effectively from anywhere in the world – use it.  A VoIP system will make it possible. 

Reduce Phone Bills 

BT Openreach will be switching off the analogue and ISDN phone network in 2025 and there will undoubtedly be a rush on demand for engineers to help businesses make the switch to VoIP as the date approaches.  And as demand increases, so does cost and lead times.  Save your business the hassle of trying to secure an engineer for an inflated price in the future by switching your system out now.  Businesses also repeatedly report up to 80% savings on their phone bills when using VoIP rather than traditional phone lines.  A clean cut case of spending now to save in the future. 

Equations Voice and Data have worked with businesses in all sectors for around 30 years, we’ve seen a lot in that time. If you’d like to discuss your business with us, get in touch with the team today.