OT Group is proud to announce the launch of our new ebook, a free downloadable guide which has been specifically created to help small and medium-sized businesses make more informed technology and IT decisions, that help them to better manage their remote workforce.
The guide comes as small and medium-sized organizations across Ontario are increasingly transitioning to a work-from-home model, in which their employees are working remotely.
In fact, earlier this year Statistics Canada found that 40 percent of Canada’s workers were working remotely - compared to less than 10 percent in 2018.
The ebook, titled ‘The Ultimate Tech Guide: Managing Your Remote Team’, takes a deeper look at the IT strategies and technologies your organization must consider if it is to both effectively manage a remote workforce and provide those stay-at-home workers with the tools they need to be productive.
Tips in the ebook include:
What technologies your employees need to efficiently work from home
To ensure your stay-at-home employees are working efficiently and productively outside of your company’s office, it’s highly important that they have access to the technologies that properly support their roles.
This could include anything from:
- Desktops and laptop computers
- Printers and scanners
- Communication tools for good collaboration
- And many others!
How cloud-based technologies are driving productivity within remote teams
Relying on physical hardware and software can be tricky with a remote workforce, especially if your employees are splitting their time between both the office and home. Cloud technology is making it seamless for remote teams to access and manage their workflow.
Using cloud technology will bring a wide range of benefits to organizations with remote workforces, such as greater mobility and flexibility for workers to work from where they want, more seamlessly collaboration and file sharing, complete scalability, improved cybersecurity and much more.
How you can protect your remote business from cybercrime
Small and medium-sized organizations are particularly vulnerable to cybercrime, and this is becoming an increasing risk as their workforces become remote. Stay-at-home employees are particularly vulnerable to phishing scams, insecure home WiFi connections and poorly managed passwords.
Thankfully, there are plenty of technologies that your business can implement to protect your remote workforce from security threats. By training your employees how to protect themselves and investing in some simple technologies that secure your company’s data, your organization will be able to protect its data from costly cyberattacks.
Why designing a data backup and recovery strategy will protect your work
According to Cisco, more than 20 percent of businesses that experience data loss or suffer a cyber-attack lose customers as well. Shockingly, 40 percent of those companies lose more than 20 percent of their customers.
Even with the best cybersecurity measures in place, there’s no way to 100 percent ensure that your organization is safe from cybercrime. Having a data backup and recovery plan in place, however, will ensure your business is able to recover data even in the event of a loss.
This is particularly important for organizations with remote employees, as without a data backup plan it’s likely file saving will be inconsistent with data stored across a range of physical hardware, cloud applications and personal computers.
Do you want to learn more about the technology needed to manage a successful remote workforce?
If you want to read about these technologies in more detail, and how they help small and medium-sized businesses successfully manage their work-from-home employees, then please do download our free ebook below.
Meanwhile, if you have any further questions in regards to your IT strategy, then contact OT Group today. Our team of IT and technology specialists would love to answer any questions that you may have.
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