How Coronavirus is changing online behavior
Many of the UK’s 66 million residents are adapting to these unprecedented times by turning to online shopping and browsing the internet to fight boredom at home. We asked Phil Reay, SessionCam’s Head of Insight, to explore our unique dataset and identify some of the impacts we have seen from this change. Phil looked at some of the differences in behaviour when comparing March activity to February. Online Grocery Shopping Brands selling online groceries and health-related goods have seen huge spikes in traffic volume to their websites. In response, some have introduced a queuing system to manage entry to their...
Happy Birthday to us – SessionCam turns 11
The month of April marks a special time for us here at SessionCam. It’s our birthday and we can’t quite believe how quickly the last year has gone by. SessionCam is now 11 years old. To celebrate, we are having a virtual party with all our hard-working, home based employees. Whilst the next few months will be challenging for us all, we are still looking forward to the year ahead. We plan to hold our next round of customer meet-up events in June. These will be virtual too for the first time, with a range of presentations covering our product...
The Day the Internet Stopped in the UK
At 8pm last night, the UK stopped for a brief few minutes to step outside of our homes as part of the “clap for carers” campaign. The event was organized on social media to show the nation’s appreciation for the heroic efforts of our health workers and carers. We also participated in this very public demonstration of love for the UK’s NHS. This morning, when reviewing our technical activity logs, we could clearly see the drop in UK Internet activity during these moments. Yes, the internet really did stop for a while here in the UK! This was part of...
Optimizing in a Time of Crisis
Over the last two weeks, we have been talking with staff, clients and suppliers to understand how they are meeting the new challenges presented by the Coronavirus. We’ve had many conversations with companies of all sizes across the world and we wanted to share some immediate thoughts. Working from Home Works Our own experience of moving all staff to working from home was very smooth. Overnight, we transitioned to this new operating model with just a few minor bumps, in many ways, we expected this. SessionCam was born in the cloud, in 2009, that’s where our data has always lived....
Our Guide to Working from Home
Like many other companies at the moment, we have resorted to all our staff working from home to reduce the spread of Coronavirus. We asked Ryan Keeney from our Insights Team, who have worked from home for the last 7 years, for their top 10 recommendations. Have a Start Time You wouldn’t get away with strolling into the office at 10 am every day, so why should it be any different working from home. Plan Your Day Manage your expectations and arrange tasks just as you would in the office. What is urgent, what can wait? Being at home doesn’t...
Company Update: Coronavirus
These are very challenging times for us all as we step up to deal with the uncertainties created by the rapid spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). As we remain committed to providing our services to our clients, we are making some small changes to how we work. This is so we can make the strongest possible contribution to reduce the transmission of the virus throughout our communities. Until we get to the other side of this situation, all our staff are now working from home. This is a scenario we have previously tested as part of our Business Continuity Planning....
