4 Ways to Build a Business Without Boundaries
When it comes to the world of work, it can sometimes look like anything but. Your employees are just as likely to be typing away from their kitchen table or couch as they are their office desk. But make no mistake: your employees are hard at work keeping your business running, even if they’re not always at the office.
As this hybrid model of work—working both remotely and in the office—becomes the norm instead of the exception, you need to help ensure that employees have secure access to the applications, tools, and files they need to get work done no matter where they do it. If you don’t, you run the risk of demotivating employees. This can lead to less productivity, employee burnout, and the increased chance of risky behavior that can leave the company exposed to cyberattacks.
To help you build a business without boundaries, let’s look at four ways you can help your teams improve their ability to work in a hybrid environment.
Just because your employees are working at home doesn’t mean they no longer need to print and scan critical business documents. That’s why you need to make sure your remote employees have easy access to high-quality printers and scanners at home so they can continue to work without interruption. Here’s what to consider:
Give your employees the right tools for the job
1.
If there’s a problem, employees can’t expect the same level of on-site IT service they’ve come to expect from the office. Prioritize equipment that is easy to deploy, set up, and manage by a non-IT user, while also helping to make sure that the device is reliable.
Make equipment
IT-proof
Right size for the right space
Employees who are working out of their bedroom, dining room, or closets need devices that are compact and can sit on a shelf or under a desk. At the same time, devices must be ready to meet the functionality and performance demands of business users.
Right size for the right space
Make equipment
IT-proof
Your business data is one of your most valuable assets. You need to help ensure it stays protected equally effectively whether employees are at the office or working from home. Think about:
Keep information security top of mind
2.
Your employees are still working closely together. They’re just doing it miles apart. This means you need to give them the ability to access, print, and edit documents without having to email documents back and forth. To improve collaboration you can:
Empower mobile collaboration among all employees
3.
While paper processes are still key to many day-to-day operations, this can make things difficult when working from home. The more you can digitize and automate your processes, the easier it will be to capture, route, and archive information. Benefits include:
Mitigate paper processes where possible
4.
Give Your Team the Tools to Work in a Hybrid Environment
By thinking about how you can increase agility in your business now, you can build a strong,
long-term foundation for business continuity and success in the years ahead.
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If there’s a problem, employees can’t expect the same level of on-site IT service they’ve come to expect from the office. Prioritize equipment that is easy to deploy, set up, and manage by a non-IT user, while also helping to make sure that the device is reliable.
Make equipment
IT-proof
Verifying physical data security
at home
Providing security training
Employees working at home are vulnerable to security issues like phishing. Provide security awareness training to help employees understand how to avoid security risks from online and email attacks.
Providing security training
Verifying physical data security
at home
An employee who might shred sensitive printouts at work might not think twice about throwing those same documents in the recycling can at home. Make sure that employees who work with sensitive data, such as your finance department, have a shredder at home and are reminded to use it just as they would at the office.
Employees working at home are vulnerable to security issues like phishing. Provide security awareness training to help employees understand how to avoid security risks from online and email attacks.
Providing security training
Make your
content mobile
ake equipment
IT-proof
This helps ensure that employees are working with the latest file, reducing the risk of having multiple versions of the same document with no agreement on which is the correct one.
Put your content
in the cloud
Make your
content mobile
More work than ever before gets done on smartphones and tablets. Your collaboration tools must be able to provide instant access to every file from any device, at anytime, anywhere.
This helps ensure that employees are working with the latest file, reducing the risk of having multiple versions of the same document with no agreement on which is the correct one.
Put your content
in the cloud
Smarter
delivery
Increased
efficiency
Automating paper-based workflows helps employees be more productive and provides increased access to information while helping
to reduce errors.
Increased
efficiency
Smarter
delivery
For things like mail that might stack up at an office, digital mailroom solutions can digitize and route incoming mail electronically so that no one misses an important invoice or communication.
Automating paper-based workflows helps employees be more productive and provides increased access to information while helping
to reduce errors.
Increased
efficiency
Right size for the right space
Right size for the right space
If there’s a problem, employees can’t expect the same level of on-site IT service they’ve come to expect from the office. Prioritize equipment that is easy to deploy, set up, and manage by a non-IT user, while also helping to make sure that the device is reliable.
Make equipment IT-proof
When it comes to the world of work, it can sometimes look like anything but. Your employees are just as likely to be typing away from their kitchen table or couch as they are their office desk. But make no mistake: your employees are hard at work keeping your business running, even if they’re not always at the office.
As this hybrid model of work—working both remotely and in the office—becomes the norm instead of the exception, you need to help ensure that employees have secure access to the applications, tools, and files they need to get work done no matter where they do it. If you don’t, you run the risk of demotivating employees. This can lead to less productivity, employee burnout, and the increased chance of risky behavior that can leave the company exposed to cyberattacks.
To help you build a business without boundaries, let’s look at four ways you can help your teams improve their ability to work in a hybrid environment.
As this hybrid model of work—working both remotely and in the office—becomes the norm instead of the exception, you need to help ensure that employees have secure access to the applications, tools, and files they need to get work done no matter where they do it. If you don’t, you run the risk of demotivating employees. This can lead to less productivity, employee burnout, and the increased chance of risky behavior that can leave the company exposed to cyberattacks.
Just because your employees are working at home doesn’t mean they no longer need to print and scan critical business documents. That’s why you need to make sure your remote employees have easy access to high-quality printers and scanners at home so they can continue to work without interruption. Here’s what to consider:
Right size for the right space
Make equipment IT-proof
Employees who are working out of their bedroom, dining room, or closets need devices that are compact and can sit on a shelf or under a desk. At the same time, devices must be ready to meet the functionality and performance demands of business users.
Right size for the right space
If there’s a problem, employees can’t expect the same level of on-site IT service they’ve come to expect from the office. Prioritize equipment that is easy to deploy, set up, and manage by a non-IT user, while also helping to make sure that the device is reliable.
Make equipment IT-proof
Employees who are working out of their bedroom, dining room, or closets need devices that are compact and can sit on a shelf or under a desk. At the same time, devices must be ready to meet the functionality and performance demands of business users.
Right size for the right space
If there’s a problem, employees can’t expect the same level of on-site IT service they’ve come to expect from the office. Prioritize equipment that is easy to deploy, set up, and manage by a non-IT user, while also helping to make sure that the device is reliable.
Make equipment IT-proof
Right size for the right space
Make equipment IT-proof
Make your content mobile
Put your content in the cloud
More work than ever before gets done on smartphones and tablets. Your collaboration tools must be able to provide instant access to every file from any device, at anytime, anywhere.
Make your content mobile
This helps ensure that employees are working with the latest file, reducing the risk of having multiple versions of the same document with no agreement on which is the correct one.
Put your content in the cloud