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This Is How You Deploy Useful AI in Your Workplace
The four-day week trials have run. The data is largely positive. Productivity holds or improves. Staff wellbeing improves. Retention improves. The case for it as a concept is reasonably well established at this point. The question that gets far less attention is a practical one: is the office actually capable of supporting it?
Chris Gore
May 185 min read
Revealing The Secret Footballer | Future Workplace Podcast
A Premier League footballer turned whistleblower on the culture, mental health failures and high-performance secrets inside professional football. What does it mean for your workplace?
Chris Gore
Apr 15 min read
Buildings Are Broken, Heres How To Fix Them.
Here's a stat that should make every commercial property owner sit up: 80% of UK office buildings will not meet the government's minimum energy efficiency standard of EPC B by 2030. That's four years away. And if you miss it? A minimum £150,000 fine. Per building.
Chris Gore
Mar 240 min read
How AV Design Can Improve Your ESG Strategy (and Your EcoVadis Score)
Your AV systems are quietly affecting your ESG performance — and most organisations can't prove what impact they're having. Here's how to change that, and why it matters for your EcoVadis score.
Georgina Austin-Smith
3 hours ago4 min read
How Long Does an AV Installation Take? What to Expect.
This is one of the questions asked most frequently by IT managers and office managers planning a fit-out or refurbishment and almost never answered clearly by AV suppliers. The honest answer is that it depends on the scope, the hardware lead times and how prepared the building is. This guide gives realistic timelines for UK projects of different sizes and explains the factors that cause delays.
Chris Gore
2 days ago4 min read
How to Manage Remote Employees Without Becoming the Problem
Someone on your remote team is logged into Teams right now. Green dot showing. Status says available. And they have not done a single productive thing in three hours. You know it. Every manager with a remote team knows it. The question keeping people up at night is what to actually do about it.
Chris Gore
5 days ago5 min read
The Problem With AV
How a Major Insurance Company Transformed 8 Meeting Rooms With a Full AV Fit-Out
They had eight meeting rooms on a single floor that needed a complete rethink. Not a patch job. A proper, standardised, future-ready AV fit-out. That's where SPOR came in.
Chris Gore
Apr 216 min read
When One Room Needs to Do Two Jobs: Microsoft Teams Room Meets Dolby Atmos
Most meeting rooms are built for one thing. A screen, a camera, a speakerphone, done. But what happens when your business needs that same space to pull double duty? One moment it needs to run a flawless Microsoft Teams call with a client in New York. The next, it needs to drop jaws with a cinema-quality product demonstration.
Chris Gore
Apr 175 min read
How SPOR Group Transformed Masdar's London HQ Into a Seamless Microsoft Teams Rooms Environment
When a global clean energy company relocates its London headquarters, the pressure is on to get everything right and that includes the technology that keeps their people connected. Masdar, one of the world's leading renewable energy developers, needed a complete Audio-Visual overhaul at their new Paddington office. They turned to SPOR Group to deliver it. Here's how we did it and what the end result looks like.
Chris Gore
Mar 114 min read
Reviews
How to Reduce AV Costs Without Reducing Quality
Every AV budget has two kinds of pressure. The legitimate desire to get good value for money and the temptation to cut things that seem discretionary but are actually essential. The businesses that get this right understand the difference between reducing cost and deferring it. A cheaper install that needs emergency repairs in year one costs more over three years than the properly specced version would have.
Chris Gore
6 days ago4 min read
How Much Does an AV Service Contract Cost in the UK? (2026 Guide)
The screen in the boardroom goes offline on a Friday afternoon. No monitoring in place. Nobody knows until the CEO walks in on Monday morning with clients on the call. An engineer visits on Tuesday. They pull the screen off the wall and find the warranty expired three months ago. Three weeks of room downtime. A replacement screen. Two site visits. A bill of around five thousand pounds.
Chris Gore
May 264 min read
What Is a PTZ Camera and How Much Does One Cost for Your Meeting Room?
Most meeting rooms do not need a dedicated PTZ camera. An all-in-one video bar with a wide-angle lens covers the majority of rooms under ten people perfectly well. But there is a specific set of rooms where a video bar will not cut it, and for those rooms, a PTZ camera is not optional.
Chris Gore
May 124 min read
How Much Does AV Cost?
Webex vs Microsoft Teams: Which Is Right for Your Business in 2026?
The platform decision comes before any hardware conversation. Whether you choose Microsoft Teams or Webex determines which certified devices you can use, how your rooms integrate with your calendar, what your IT team manages and what the long-term upgrade path looks like. Getting it wrong means replacing hardware when you switch platforms.
Microsoft Teams has 320 million daily active users and dominates the UK enterprise market. Webex by Cisco is the choice of large enterp
Chris Gore
4 hours ago3 min read
Yealink MeetingBar A50 vs Logitech Rally Bar: Which Is the Better Teams Room Video Bar?
Both appear on almost every shortlist for medium-to-large meeting rooms in the UK. Both are Microsoft Teams certified. Both do 4K. Both include AI framing and built-in audio. On paper, the decision looks straightforward. In practice, the differences in camera approach, audio power, ecosystem management and price-per-room make each one the right answer for a different type of organisation. This is the honest comparison. Not the spec sheet version.
Chris Gore
1 day ago5 min read
Neat vs Logitech: Which Camera System Is Better for Hybrid Meetings?
Hybrid meetings should not feel like a compromise. But for many teams, that is exactly what they are. Someone at the back of the room sounds like they are underwater. The camera cuts off the person standing at the whiteboard. Remote participants spend half the call wondering who is speaking.
Hitesh Chauhan
May 277 min read
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