Resilience in Lockdown by Anise Bullimore What is lockdown like for you? What are you finding challenging? Are there things helping you through? What are you learning? We are going through radical change to our way of life right now. None of us are having the 2020 we’d hoped for. Now, more than ever, we…
Finding a workspace in London by Maxene London Phew! What a wild ride these last few weeks have been. On Wednesday 12th Feb 2020, my husband and I purchased flights to London for the following Wednesday. In between that time, my sister got married, we bought our suitcases (we very rarely travel), packed our bags (how do…
The idea seems crazy, I know. Launching a new business is a big gamble even during normal times. So you must be wondering: why on earth would I be launching a business during coronavirus? That’s the stupidest advice I’ve heard, and I have heard a lot of stupid advice these days. Wait. The idea sounds…
Virtual coworking in our online workspace The last few weeks have been interesting at Othership as we transitioned to virtual coworking and our online workspace. We share the story of how we went from a free workspace provider to also be the UK’s first virtual coworking start-up. How did it start? Necessity can so often…
There are tons of awesome SEO tools out there to help you with Backlinks, Content, and the technical part of SEO. However, today we’ll only focus on the free ones because not everybody can afford to pay for tools and even if you can if it’s a small project or a part-time gig, it doesn’t…
The Othership Mental Health Action Plan, powering productivity with positivity We have created our Othership Mental Health Action Plan in order to support our community and the wider ‘working from home’ global community through the Coronavirus crisis. Keep apart, stay together The first thing we aim to do, is bring people back together. We know…
Impacts of Coronavirus on mental health When news of the Coronavirus spread, the reports of it’s impact on health and death rate were immediately understood. This virus was deadly and we needed to stay home to save lives. However, what is clear only now is that the implications go far wider than these immediate health…
Virtual Coworking: What is it and how does it work? Virtual coworking has suddenly seen a massive boom in 2020 thanks to the onset of the Coronavirus. Some industries seem to manage to have bucked the trend. This is mainly thanks to their ability to bring together community through working in a digital space. None…
The Best Web Video Conferencing and Screenshare Apps Online meetings and events have been booming these past few years, and even more so recently, with the covid-19 outbreak. Now that we are all working remotely, sometimes from our beds, we are looking at the best way to stay connected. So we thought we would review…
Covid-19 support for freelancers & self-employed What was announced today by Rishi Sunak? New announcements for the Covid-19 support for freelancers and self-employed was announced today by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak. But what does this really mean for the 5 million+ freelancers in the UK. Taxable grant-based of 80% of average profits…
