Working from home – we are here to help
As Coronavirus continues to spread and government advice shifts, businesses are quickly needing to prepare their employees to be able to work from home. We understand this can be a confusing and time consuming process but we are here to help you manage this shift to home working.
The world’s largest work from home experiment
According to Bloomberg, Covid-19 & advice from Number 10 to work from home, where possible has kicked off the world’s largest work-from-home experiment.
But it is still critical to ensure that your business is prepared, reducing the impact on operations as much as possible. This is where we can help. We’re standing & supporting our customers facing this challenge, working hard to minimise the impact on their businesses.
Who should work from home?
The governments stringent new measures advise that everyone should work from home where possible to combat the spread of coronavirus. But of course this creates practical issues & raises questions for employers and employees.
Working from home – what do you need to think about?
For your employees to be able to efficiently work from home, it is time to consider some key questions
- What equipment & software will your employees need to work remotely?
- Do your employees have a good internet connection, how strong is it?
- Will your employees be taking office PC’s home to work from? If so, how close is the employee’s workspace to their router? Will they need a Wi-Fi adapter?
- Do they have a company laptop available updated with cyber security software?
- If the employee experiences any IT issues, who do they contact?
- Have you thought about whether you need a VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection to your company servers?
How are we supporting our customers?
We are supporting our customers to continue ‘business as usual’. We’re working hard providing work from home solutions that allow office based employees to:
- safely and easily access work and email
- answer customer calls on their mobiles
- easily contact all colleagues through telephone, email and messaging
- collaborate and share files – allowing colleagues to work together as is they were in the office
- take part in telephone and video conference meetings
Here to help you
This is certainly a challenging time. To keep employees and the wider community safe and to continue to operate, businesses have a lot to consider and are under pressure to react quickly.
If you would like impartial advice on setting up remote working for employees get in touch, our team will be happy to help.
Call us on 01748 835599 or email our team on info@signaltelecom.co.uk
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