Talk with your locksmith Liverpool service to see what you can do to improve your home office security.
More people are opting out of the 9-to-5 career mode. In the UK, the number of freelancers is expected to hit 50% of the workforce by 2020. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) Labour Force Survey (LFS), self-employed people without employees working in a range of technical and professional and managerial positions accounted for 42% of the 4.8 million self-employed workforce in 2016.
That means freelancers accounted for 6% of the UK workforce.
Another study found that homeworkers were more productive than office workers. And that could appeal to companies that want to help their employees become more productive. Recruitment International also concluded that about 63% of employees in the UK wanted to get out of the 9-to-5 lifestyle and become freelancers.
Furthermore, Ofcom found 91% of all households in the UK enjoyed ‘super-fast internet’ at 30 megabits per second, further encouraging more people, small and medium businesses to work from home offices.
What that means is more people will be working out of their home than at any other time before. What does that mean for home security in the UK with over 600,000 burglaries recorded—over 261,000 of which are domestic?
You’ll want to secure your home office more.
Here are some simple tips to get you started.
Talk to Your Locksmith Liverpool Service
You want to keep uninvited guests at bay—all the time. And the first place to begin is to ensure they are unable to access your home from the outside.
Spending an hour or less consulting with a professional locksmith Liverpool service can help you avoid more costly home office property losses, data breaches and similar inconveniences.
An experienced Liverpool locksmith will inform you whether you are best guarded by keyless or keyed lock systems, whether you should consider rekeying or changing your locks, what the best type of lock for your home business is, and also what the costs of replacing your lock or keys would be if you need an upgrade or tweak.
Choosing your Home Office Safe
With so many burglaries around, you’ll want to keep your sensitive home business documents, data and mobile devices safe in a reliable safe.
Go for a key-operated safe if you just need a basic safe without the bells, whistles, and extras of a combined, digital or fingerprint safes. Although increasingly rare, combined safes are quite secure if you do not want to have to keep track of a physical key. Digital safes utilize digital codes to lock and secure items.
These are the latest safe models; they can be reliable but also have their limitations in that they can be hacked if the owner was not careful.
Fingerprint safes are also reliable, especially when the fingerprint surface does not stick fingerprints. Otherwise, it would be compromised by a meticulous burglar. While digital and fingerprint safes are pricier, there are different levels of sophistication that can offer enhanced security at an affordable rate.
These are just two essentials that, if implemented, can help you to beef up security in and around your home business office. You can team up with a locksmith service to help you push through successfully.
