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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General News
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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Baby steps for sustainable technology in housing
In the past, when people have discussed technology in the context of housing and certainly in the context of social housing, certain words are usually guaranteed to be used within 60 seconds of the conversation starting. Speed. Cost. Effort. Improvement. Drive. Change. Innovation. Productivity. Solution. Automatic. Connected. What do all of these words have in…
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Stonewater launches HR chatbot from MHR
Stonewater has introduced a dedicated HR chatbot from MHR to drive employee engagement. The chatbot enables Stonewater staff to carry out many routine transactions within iTrent, such as booking holidays, checking over/flexi-time balances, submitting expenses, viewing payslips, clocking hours and managing their diaries, all from their smartphones. The pilot of MHR’s iTrent chatbot is the…
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