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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
The Best Meeting Room Locations Near Kings Cross and Paddington (2026)
Kings Cross and Paddington are two of London's busiest transport interchange points. Between them they connect to almost every part of the country by rail and to most of London by tube. For organisations hosting meetings with people travelling from multiple directions, or with clients arriving by national rail, both locations offer something the City and Mayfair cannot: genuine transport accessibility at a significantly lower price point.
Chris Gore
35 minutes ago4 min read
The Ultimate Office Move Checklist for IT Managers (2026 UK Guide)
The physical move is the easy part of an office relocation. The IT and AV workstream, speccing the new rooms, ordering hardware within lead time windows, coordinating with the fit-out contractor, commissioning every device and training staff before anyone walks in, is where most office moves create problems that take months to resolve.
This is the honest week-by-week checklist for IT managers planning an office move in 2026. Twelve weeks of preparation. The things that get
Chris Gore
23 hours ago4 min read
What Is Poly Lens and Should Your Business Be Using It?
HP Poly is one of the longest-established names in meeting room audio-visual hardware. Their video bars, cameras, headsets and conference phones appear in meeting rooms across the UK. Poly Lens is the cloud-based device management platform that gives IT teams visibility and control over their HP Poly hardware estate from a single dashboard.
This guide covers what Poly Lens actually does, its limitations and how it compares to a managed monitoring service like SPORTrack for o
Chris Gore
3 days ago3 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
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How to Plan an Office Relocation Without Losing Your AV Investment
Most organisations treat the AV estate as an afterthought in an office relocation. Hardware gets moved without a condition audit. Old specs get applied to new rooms with different dimensions. Devices that should have been left under the dilapidation terms get removed and cost the organisation money to make good. Devices that should have been replaced get moved and create problems in the new building within six months.
Chris Gore
2 days ago4 min read
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
May 284 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
How Much Does AV Cost?
What Is a Meeting Room Booking System and Which One Is Right for You?
Two teams arrive for the same meeting room. One booked it on Outlook. One has a recurring reservation that has not been updated in three months. The room booking system exists to prevent this. But the system that prevents it for a ten-room office is different from the one that prevents it for a hundred-room multi-site estate.
This is the honest buyers guide for UK businesses choosing a meeting room booking system in 2026. Five questions to answer before selecting a platfor
Chris Gore
6 days ago3 min read
Microsoft Surface Hub vs Standard Teams Room: Is It Worth It?
The Microsoft Surface Hub is one of the most impressive pieces of meeting room hardware available. A large format 4K touchscreen with Windows 11 built in, digital whiteboarding, camera, microphone and speaker all integrated into a single device. It looks exceptional. It costs accordingly.
Chris Gore
7 days ago3 min read
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
Jun 33 min read
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