If you Google snow day you get listings for:

• Snowday.co.uk (all about school closures)
• Snowday.com (coming soon? going to miss the boat there guys)
• A Times article from 3rd Feb 2009 when the industry valued last year’s snow disruption at £3bn
• Snow day live blog from the Guardian
• Some interesting news from Twitter, with a great screen shot from Trendsmap which sadly only shows the popular terms used in the south but the article confirms that in the north we featured more terms like “sledging” and “snowman”!

Today The Business Desk reported that business across the NW could have lost as much as £50m as a result of absenteeism yesterday!!

Cheeky Monkey HQ is in Lymm. We are well and truly snowed in but did this raise panic through our ranks and stop our world, no.

Why?

We are set up to work remotely, like I thought so many other businesses are? Are the stories of more flexible working and the increasing use of technology really what they seem? We have swapped the motorways for conference calls. Sharing data files via our cloud. The snow is not stopping emails, SMS messages or Messenger.

What’s all the Fuss About?

We have sent our snowy pictures to our colleagues in Nigeria, those in Toronto cannot believe what a fuss we are making about this and our friendly Swede Patrik quite rightly said if anyone wants to attack the UK they just have to wait for a bit of snow.

White is the New Black

Enjoy the snow! As far as we are concerned the snow has bought a bit of calm to our lives. We have to walk instead of drive. People are acting like a community again, swapping tales, helping each other and more than anything just talking (and having snowball fights, building snowmen and sledging!).

Find a Different Way

If your business is suffering the snow may be your wake up call to look at different ways of working. It is going to be a beautiful day perhaps more of us need to see this as a sign to move into the new decade a different way. And before anyone starts I know we can’t do everything in the virtual world, I am desperate to get my hair cut and so far that cannot be done online…

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