WOW!! We’ve only gone & achieved GOLD!!
read moreAs part of our ongoing commitment to supporting the Armed Forces, we are proud to celebrate Armed Forces Day (formerly Veteran’s Day) today, 26th June 2021.
read moreAs part of our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces, we are proud to celebrate Reserves Day today, 23rd June 2021.
read moreAs mid-June arrives it can only mean one thing: RoSPA Award submission time!
With 5 awards under our belt; 1 bronze and 4 silver, & the aim to achieve Gold
This week is Mental Health Awareness week, an awareness campaign recognised by a number of leading mental health charities.
read moreQuadratek renews their CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis Service) membership for a 4th year.
read moreAs a member of the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, their ‘Business News’ is the perfect place to let other businesses, partners and customers in Hampshire know we’re in business.
read moreQuadratek is delighted to SHOUT that we have been awarded GOLD SafePQQ verification from Alcumus SafeContractor for achieving excellence in health and safety in the workplace
read moreThank you for your patience, loyalty, and custom over the past year whilst we have entered the new normal that COVID-19 has presented.
read moreFrom banging our saucepans on a Thursday night showing appreciation & support for the wonderful NHS, many of us joined local community groups to ensure everyone was doing ok
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Whilst we remain in unprecedented times trying to navigate our way through living with Covid-19, now more than ever those around the world who are less fortunate than us living in poverty need our support. This is why, once again, one of our team members and her daughters have been out shopping to fill shoeboxes for this year’s Rotary Shoebox appeal.
read moreIt’s great to see our Advantage Membership of the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce recognised as we are welcomed in their Business News publication – check us out on page 44
read moreAs a new recipient of the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Silver Award, we are proud to have been part, albeit virtually, of the ERS Ceremony
read moreWe have, for the 4th year, been awarded a RoSPA Silver award in recognition of our excellent approach to health & safety.
read moreAugust is turning into a month of announcements!
We are delighted to announce we have been recognised by the Armed Forces Covenant as a Silver Award winner of the Employee Recognition Scheme.
read moreQuadratek is very proud to announce its membership and association with the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce.
read moreWe would like to advise all our customers; past, present & future, that Quadratek is fully operational during the COVID-19 pandemic- it’s business as usual folks!
read moreAnother day another accreditation certificate received!
We are proud to announce we have received our CHAS Premium Plus certificate for 2020.
read moreAs predicted, we have been spending a lot of time logging in and out, building, updating, changing, adding to & then deleting from our draft submission for this year’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Achievement Awards
read moreOur thanks to our Armed Forces Covenant Employee Recognition Scheme REEDs (Regional Employer Engagement Directors) for their invaluable time last week to help us get a better understanding of the requirements for our Silver Award application.
read moreFrom Monday 2nd March, TfL roads in central London will be changing their speed limit to 20mph
read moreQuadratek is happy to announce we are now a certified Allied Telesis Gold Partner.
read moreFor information on the outbreak of CoronaVirus in China, including the current situation in the UK, and information about the virus, its symptoms, and measures that can be taken to reduce the risks, please read the attached Government poster here
read moreIn recognition of our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces, Quadratek was invited to attend the South East Employer Engagement Conference hosted by 11th Infantry Brigade at GOLD Employer Recognition Scheme partner QinetiQ’s Cody Technology Park on Wednesday 5th February.
read moreWe are proud to announce that Quadratek has, for a consecutive 6th year, been awarded accreditation from Alcumus SafeContractor for achieving excellence in health and safety in the workplace.
read moreFor the second year running, Quadratek was proud to support Crisis to ensure homeless people enjoyed a hot Christmas dinner in a warm, safe, and welcoming environment, received physical and mental health checks, new clothes, advice to find safe affordable housing and had a caring ear to listen to them.
read moreWe are pleased to welcome Mark Blissett to the Quadratek family as our Relationship Manager.
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With Christmas fast approaching one of our team members and her daughters have been out shopping to fill a couple of shoeboxes for this year’s Rotary Shoebox appeal supporting vulnerable families in Albania, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, and The Philippines.
read moreGoodwood 2020 here we come.
read moreWith our partnership spanning many years, Quadratek is delighted to announce we have retained our status for another year.
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We are pleased to welcome Shaun Hockaday to the Quadratek family as our Business Development Manager.
read moreFor the second year running, Quadratek will be supporting Crisis to ensure homeless people can enjoy not only a hot Christmas dinner in a warm, safe, and welcoming environment.
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So, 12 months ago I signed up for the Beachy Head Marathon (one of the UK’s biggest off-road marathons) as a friend talked me into it and I felt I needed a challenge. The last full marathon I competed in was the 2013 London marathon running for the Leonard Cheshire Disability Charity where I raised over £1,500.
read moreAnd so, the process begins. We will be spending a lot of time over the next 8 months logging in and out, building, updating, adding to, and finally submitting our entry to next year’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Achievement Awards.
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After 3 years of receiving a RoSPA Silver award, we needed to aim for Gold. But I must admit, the thought of sitting in a large conference suite with 100s of other people listening to corporate bodies discussing health and safety in the hope I ‘may’ come away slightly wiser wasn’t something that appealed to me, but after discovering HMS Belfast was the host, I changed my mind!
read moreAs smartphone ownership increases in number (163.9 million for 2014 and projected to reach 182.6 million by next year), there is also a boost in personal mobile data information being shared online and saved on devices. Security became the main concern in the consumer tech world. As an answer, manufacturers have resorted to various ways on how to prevent data leakage in the past year.
read moreOperating any form of business intoday’s modern climate is a very competitive affair. In order to compete with
industry leaders for market share in any business niche, it’s not only
essential for companies to have a product or service that is in demand, but the
way that the business itself carries out
its operations must also be seen to be exemplary. To reinforce their
professionalism, their commitment to best practice, and to open the window to
new opportunities, more and more business are acquiring ISO certification.
Today, businesses in almost every industry sector and every country – or regional jurisdiction – are regulated by standards and guidelines. Some are mandatory, with penalties for non-compliance. Others are optional and allow complying businesses to demonstrate impeccable credentials.
read moreThree dimensional printing is the creation of an object using a very clever machine. But 3D printing isn’t a new technology; it actually goes as far back as the mid 1980’s. The basic process was created by a man called Chuck Hull who worked for a large specialist company called
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It’s not every day you get a chance to go to ‘THE’ Palace and wander through the garden at your leisure, but for two members of our team, that’s exactly what happened.
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Regarded by many as a ‘day of bad luck’, for Quadratek, Friday 13th September was a great day for the team. Not only were we all out of the office on a social to Goodwood revival…
read moreThis technology isn’t new to us; we’ve been using voice activated technologies for quite some time now. You may have also heard of voice recognition; which is actually used to describe both speaker and speech recognition. Speaker recognition is when the device can detect who is speaking and speech recognition is when the device can detect what is being said.
read moreThe intranet homepage, being the most visible page on the site, tends to be the most cluttered, the most littered, and the often the most confused, as it is there that staff often contend for space to post and advertise the links that they want their colleagues to see.
read moreWithout passwords, cyber criminals would have free, unlimited access to all of your accounts and online information. Indeed, the password is the first line of defence against such thieves, and so it is very important that you consider them carefully.
read moreConventional wisdom has it that, just by getting a degree you show you’re ready for the real world – having made it through three or four years of lectures, and completed something challenging.
Not these days, though.
Increasingly, what matters is getting degrees in fields requiring exact knowledge (like law, medicine, or engineering), or that leave you with an exact skill-set (like education, science, and sometimes business).
read moreFirst, though…
The underlying principle of Net neutrality is that Internet access should be considered a utility (like water, gas, or electricity), and treated like any other. As long as you pay your bills, the electric company doesn’t care how you use their power. So it should be, with Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
read moreApple are always at the forefront when it comes to pushing new and challenging technologies, on 16th of October they announced their most impressive computer yet. The new iMac boasts a mind blowing 14.7 million pixels, which is 4 times more than a standard 27 inch iMac. This amazing amount of pixels means ultra HD…
read moreFollowing a recent report entitled the Carbon Disclosure Project, which looked into the environmental impact of global business, cloud-based software packages are looking like quite an attractive option right now.
The report concluded that such technology could save as much as 85.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions per year, within a decade, as well as saving business up to $12.3bn (£7.55bn).
read moreThis isn’t a day at the beach, oh no. This is a software bug that has been sweeping the nation, but is it as dangerous as Heartbleed? In short, yes it’s extremely dangerous for those in the know. Shellshock otherwise known as Bashdoor, is part of a group of security bugs in Unix shell Bash. Bash is basically free software that is used on millions operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X, but can also be found ported to Microsoft Windows and Android devices.
read moreSmart technology is a new age, an age where you can control everything around you from one single place. Smart technology allows us to automate our lives, including our homes. This infographic by Big Brother All Security looks at how smart technology has evolved and how it has made all of our lives easier with time saving devices. Did you know that industry experts are predicting 11% of all homes will be “smart” by the end of 2014?
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