Next Monday’s tube strike expected to cost £48m as companies make provision for staff to work from home (02/09/2010)

The threatened round of tube strikes starting on the 6th September could cost London's economy nearly £48 million a day according to the London Chamber of Commerce and has sparked a surge of interest in Cloud computing with its ability to enable effective working from anywhere. The series of planned 24-hour walkouts in protest over job cuts will cause huge disruption for thousands of Londoners returning to work after their summer holidays and Piers Linney, joint CEO of leading UK unified communications and Cloud computing organisation, Outsourcery said, "As companies prepare for an autumn of discontent they want to ensure there is minimum disruption to their core operations and Cloud computing is allowing them to do it.  During the recent volcanic ash crisis we saw an increase of 300% in Cloud computing enquiries and with a series of tube strikes planned, enquiries have risen once again by 125% as companies seek other ways to ensure it is business as usual and minimise the… [more]