According to a report by Red Letter Days, 82% of employees who felt motivated at work in 2015, had received some form of reward or recognition for a job well done! As former U.S President, Dwight Eisenhower once said, “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”

Now don’t get us wrong, it’s all good and well for Mr Eisenhower to say that, but with all due respect, we doubt that President Eisenhower ever spent time among the hustle and bustle of a busy contact centre.

Motivation can go a long way in helping your centre reach its targets; applied ineffectively could see numbers plummet, both financially and operationally, as employees may look to go and work somewhere they can feel motivated and appreciated.

Weigh-in day once again has come and gone, and with it some weight losses have come, and some gains have gone!

Our Week 3 blogger, newly appointed Commercial Director, Laura Marriner, is our resident Great North Run enthusiast, who will be running alongside Managing Director, Janni Thornton in September, in support of the Tiny Lives Trust!

Take it away Laura:

So, I truly believe I was given a very unfortunate week to blog and be successful in weight loss being given a Bank Holiday to contend with!

For the fourth consecutive year, Soho66 has proudly been shortlisted for an industry award.

For the third straight year we have been shortlisted in the ‘Best VoIP’ category of the Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) awards, where we hope to regain our crown having won this award in 2014.

Weigh-in day arrived, and with it some happy and sad faces for our Biggest Loser participants!

With some showing substantial losses, and some unfortunately gaining (after a work Pizza day on Thursday), it was mixed emotions here at Pebbletree HQ… However, one of those in the happier camp was our Week 2 blogger, Developer, Daryl Burns!

One of the newest members of the family, Jen has quickly become part of the furniture here at Pebbletree, settling nicely into her role as Office Manager.

We all like to know a bit more about the companies we do business with. This is what the purpose of our email newsletters to you are; to demonstrate our openness and transparency and let you know a bit about what has been going on behind the scenes.

So without further ado let’s forget the small talk and get straight into it!

State of Play

On June 23rd 2016, millions of people up and down Britain will take to polling stations and register their vote, for or against a Brexit.

It is a topic that has divided not only a nation, but the political parties tasked to run our country; the Conservatives stands at an impasse, with the two biggest names within the party, PM David Cameron, and Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, voting In and Out respectively. Whilst the Labour party stands relatively united, with only seven out of 222 MPs declaring that they support the ‘Leave’ campaign, four Democratic Unionist Party MPs have also pushed for a Brexit, along with sole UKIP MP, Douglas Carswell.

Back in August 2015, we launched a competition, giving people the chance to win a luxury cruise for 2 to Spain and the Canary Islands, as part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations.

This competition closed on New Years Eve, with the hard work starting for us, upon our return to the office after the festive season. There was maths, physics and photography involved, as we searched through the thousands of entries, looking for that lucky person who had correctly guessed, who come closest to, the Wisdom of the Crowds value we had calculated.

Well after all the calculations, all the searching and verifying had taken place, we found our winner, and in the videos below, you can not only discover who our lucky winners were, but also see our unfortunate bloopers reel from the day we opened the telephone box, and check out our video interview with our winners!

The Easter holidays are upon us, and that means that the long weekend/double bank holiday has arrived!

Below you can find the opening times for our brands across the bank holiday, however please bear in mind there will be technical staff on call should there be any issues with our services.