Cloud solutions can help support your office’s productivity; especially now, when it isn’t recommended that anyone congregate in the office. Thus, we wanted to go over how you can help even your remote workforce be more productive by utilizing cloud technology.
A lot of employees have been working from home for the better part of a month, but the rise of the remote worker was happening long before the COVID-19 pandemic demanded people work from home. Modern business owners that wouldn’t usually be in favor of a remote workforce are starting to come around as they see comparable productivity and less overhead costs than normal. With their remote workforce doing pretty well, one issue that these business owners are seeing is periodic miscommunication. Listed below is a look at how to enhance your company’s remote communications with technology you probably already have access to.
Business efficiency can be helped by putting a concrete process in place, which is why it feels natural to develop one in the workplace. Naturally, these processes should also come into play when working remotely. What makes a routine so advantageous, and how you can develop one to optimize your success?
At any given time, a business needs to consider its security, but this need only intensifies when its employees are working remotely. With the coronavirus pandemic very much still in play, the likelihood that your workers are in this situation has risen dramatically. In order to maintain your organizational security, you must consider the many factors that a remote workforce can introduce.
With COVID-19 resulting in people staying at home, many telecommunications companies have started to make concessions to make life easier for their customers. Whether it is used for entertainment, work, or communication, Internet access is imperative right now, and so ISPs and cell carriers are taking steps to help facilitate this.
The rising popularity of ransomware has been disconcerting to many IT professionals, especially due to the different tactics that this malware variant has been spotted utilizing. In order to protect your business from these attacks, it helps to know how they work. Listed below is a beginner’s guide to ransomware types to help you identify and avoid them.
PDFs (Portable Document Format files) are a common enough thing to encounter these days. Nevertheless, many people may not comprehend the extent of what can be done with them… like editing them. Listed below are a few of the ways you can create and edit a PDF file.
There are many reasons that your employees may need to work from home, and there are many reasons to allow them to do so. A 2019 survey by OwlLabs indicated that 71 % of remote workers are happy with their job compared to 55 percent of on-site workers; remote workers responded that they are 13 % more likely than onsite workers to stay in their current job for five more years than onsite workers will; and when respondents claimed to be working longer than 40 hours per week, onsite workers were doing so out of necessity, while remote workers did so out of desire and enjoyment.
It’s not uncommon where a situation arises that results in you working from home. To make this work, it is critical that you keep a few additional issues in mind so that you can make the most of it. Listed below are a few simple best practices that you should keep in mind as you operate remotely.
While COVID-19 has mostly dominated the public awareness and created massive interruptions to businesses of all sizes, small businesses have clearly been impacted the most, essential and non-essential businesses alike. Naturally, this doesn’t mean that large enterprises and corporations aren’t also impacted. The difference is that these enterprises and corporations are sometimes better equipped to do something about it… which many have.
The dark cloud cast by COVID-19 wouldn’t seem to have very much of a silver lining, but if you look very closely, there is the faintest one there. As more and more people are practicing self isolation, remote work has become a more pressing requirement. In response, many Internet service providers and mobile data carriers are putting changes in place that actually resemble net neutrality.
Windows 10 has available for almost five years. Have you ever used the Windows 10 Action Center, though? If the answer is yes, good for you. If the answer is no, it is time to talk about the nearly hidden part of Windows 10, and tell you how you can use it to your advantage.
March 31st is World Backup Day, which makes it the ideal opportunity to share the benefits of having a comprehensive backup plan. Alas, the current COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant business interruptions make World Backup Day only too timely this year. Below we'll examine how these tough times make a business continuity strategy and data backup all the more critical to have.
When you transition your business into a new workspace, it can be one of the most exciting times for both you and your staff. Of course it isn’t easy, however. Listed below is a short list of considerations that you should take in order to make this process go smoothly.
Because of the coronavirus, many office workers are working remotely. For many, this can feel like a nice change of scenery, while others might have additional anxiety from it. Regardless of where you stand, working remotely can be both effective and productive, if done properly.
Large data, or enormous data sets that can be utilized to make inferences and reveal patterns, has become an increasingly critical part of today's business and can be leveraged in many different ways. There are a few different options for storing this data available, which the use case for the data will dictate. Below we will evaluate whether a “data lake” or a “data warehouse” would better suit your needs.
With technology becoming more and more imperative to the success of your organization, it becomes critical that your staff gets reliable technology that will effectively run the programs they need, while giving them the level of mobility their position demands. Listed below are a list of computing options that the modern business has when it’s looking to purchase computers for its staff.
As the coronavirus outbreak continues creating global health concerns, Macro Systems wants to address how it could affect businesses that lack the preparations required to account for such an event. More specifically, we wanted to discuss why events like these add even more reasons that a file share and sync solution is a critical addition to your IT resources.
There is no denying that a companies' security--specifically, its access control--is absolutely imperative to consider. Listed below are a few tips to help you enhance your business’ security via improvements to your access controls and their policies.
All kinds of companies utilize cloud resources as a part of their IT infrastructure. It allows them to turn what was once a major capital expenditure into a controllable operating cost; and, it does it while offering solutions to almost any business problem. The one drawback that most IT professionals agree on is how to gain enough control over a cloud platform to ensure that the platform is secure.
