Productivity boost: keep your team connected and performing at their best
October 14, 2025
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This blog explores the productivity loss that businesses incur due to connectivity outages and how Vorboss keeps your team more productive.
Q4 is crunch time, with businesses pushing hard to hit year-end targets. But nothing slows momentum like lagging connectivity. For teams, that often run across hybrid setups using cloud apps, this often means slow file transfers, dropped video calls, and frustrated employees trying to get work done. Every minute of downtime is a minute of lost productivity.
The hidden cost of downtime
Our Reliability and Compensation Report shows that 51% of UK fixed business connectivity customers report experiencing an outage annually, and nearly 1 in 5 have more than three outages.
These disruptions cost the average business around £11,000 in lost output.
Even worse, over 60% of those affected didn’t receive any compensation, either because claiming it wasn’t worth the effort or they didn’t expect to get anything back. So, while cheaper connections might look appealing on paper, they carry hidden operational costs that far outweigh any upfront savings.
How bandwidth directly impacts productivity
As more teams use AI-driven tools to speed-up tasks, poor connectivity becomes counteractive. These tools rely on fast, stable bandwidth to process and return results in real time. When responses lag, workflows slow, and the efficiency gains AI is designed to provide are reduced.
Most businesses only realise their network limits when they need it most, Q4 is the perfect example! Yet many teams have simply learned to put up with it. After years of slow uploads and dropped calls, it’s easy to accept that’s just how things are. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There is a choice, and switching to a more reliable connection is simpler than most realise (to us, anyway).
Fix problems now before they get worse
Addressing performance issues now ensures your team finishes the year strong and starts the next one even stronger. With reliable bandwidth, files transfer instantly, video calls stay clear, and systems remain responsive, so your team can focus on what really counts, getting work done.
Even if everything seems fine today, your team’s bandwidth demands are growing rapidly. Nielsen’s Law shows that high-end users’ network speeds increase by roughly 50% each year, so now’s the time to check whether your current contract can support the upgrades your team will need to avoid future slowdowns.
How Vorboss keeps your team productive
- We control reliability end-to-end - we own the entire network, fibre, engineers, and even wayleaves, so there are no third-party dependencies, contractors or delays.
- Automatic compensation - we’re so confident in our network that if downtime happens, you don’t need to chase compensation, it’s paid automatically.
- Dedicated connection - guaranteed 99.9%+ uptime with equal upload/download speeds 24/7, so performance won’t dip during busy periods.
- Scalable for future demands - as your team grows, you can scale bandwidth within days, avoiding the hassle of switching providers later.
- We’ll connect you ahead of time - if your current provider is slowing productivity, we can connect you up to six months before your contract ends. Just get in contact to find out more.
Your Q4 connectivity checklist
- Review your current connectivity - is it keeping up with your team?
- Track downtime - quantify lost productivity to make informed decisions.
- Check contracts - plan early for upgrades or a provider switch now.
- Consider dedicated fibre or Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) for guaranteed speeds.
- Choose a provider with end-to-end network ownership and SLA-backed reliability.
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Vorboss, London’s leading business fibre network, today announces the launch of a cutting-edge connectivity product built to enable essential public services across the capital.
The new solution offers high-speed, reliable connectivity that’s both affordable and quick to deploy, helping London stay connected and future-proof.
Built on the 100Gbps-capable Vorboss network, the new solution delivers ultra-reliable, high-capacity connectivity that underpins the growing demands of smart city technology and public infrastructure. With a range of options to connect these end-points, Vorboss is collaborating with Vitrifi, which has deployed key components of its networking platform, on PON-based solutions as part of the launch. Working with Vitrifi allows rapid and efficient provisioning and seamless scalability.
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“We have been listening to local government organisations over the last year as they explain their difficulty in finding cost-effective, reliable solutions to connecting machines across their boroughs. Through a lot of consultation and innovation we have been able to create a fibre-based solution that is reliable and can be installed quickly.”
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About Vorboss
Vorboss is London’s most advanced business fibre network, designed to meet the connectivity needs of modern enterprises and critical public infrastructure. As a member of the Fern Trading Group (part of Octopus Investments), Vorboss is focused on empowering organisations with direct, high-capacity fibre that supports innovation and growth.
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Vitrifi is building a class-leading autonomic network platform, focussed on reducing the costs to serve customer and manage capacity, built upon a cloud-native, hyper-scaling architecture. The Vitrifi platform enables the rapid and efficient provisioning of fibre optic network services and scales seamlessly to meet the demands of its customers.
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