(Newswire.net — November 21, 2020) — The year 2020 has been one long lesson in flexibility for business owners. If you’re not nimble and not able to easily break away from the standard office and cube, 8 to 5 mindset, your employees will suffer and may have to make hard choices. The ability to work remotely can be a lifesaver.
Benefits From a Small Investment
With quality remote desktop software installed for your employees, you can be sure that your data is secure. Additionally, with a strong remote desktop connection, you can be assured that your customers will get consistent quality service no matter where your employees are physically located.
The ability to remote in requires several security points to make sure that your employees are handling company and client data properly. A quality remote desktop tracking program will let you know
- who is logged in
- the time stamp of various communications
- which users are connecting under which leader, and
- which employees are working via video
Should your IT team notice any activity that seems odd or inappropriate, you can immediately change permissions to protect your most vulnerable proprietary data.
Benefits for Your Employees
The best way to make sure that you maintain strong employee loyalty and buy-in is to give them a voice. The ability to work from home effectively requires great technical support and dependable software. In addition to being able to remote into their work, your employees can maintain connections with co-workers and continue to function creatively.
As employees are given more flexibility to work in places and times that function well with their life, you may find that hours begin to shift around. If you need to maintain specific meetings and deadlines, do so, but also make some space for flexible schedules. If you have employees that need to be supporting their children as they work to get their schoolwork done online, you may find that they do their best work at 6 a.m.
Benefits for Your Business
Fully engaged employees are more productive, more creative and more likely to stay with a company that allows them to make room for the challenges of life. One of the greatest wastes of money you’ll ever face is having fully trained employees walk out the door. By providing the option to remote in from home or from another spot, you can put your employees creative powers to the best use.
Flexible businesses that can move with the times will rise above challenges. Are there still challenges that will come up and require immediate action? Of course! However, with happy employees putting their most creative brain power to use on these challenges, you have a better chance of building bridges over obstacles. These bridges can easily be moved to the next obstacle; the energy you burn busting through obstacles is never going to be usable again.
Benefits for Your Growth
The radical changes brought about by the 2020 pandemic can lead to some positive results for business if we’re willing to see it. You may find that your business does better with employees working in split shifts than having everyone in place for the standard 8 to 5 day. You may realize that some employees actually produce more if allowed to work from home for at least part of the day.
Additionally, you may discover that your clients enjoy having someone available for a question at extreme hours. While you can’t offer 24 hour service, if you have a client that submits a query via portal or email at 5 a.m. without expecting a response until 8, they may be very pleased to get an email back at 6 a.m. so they can move on with their working day with the information they need before their doors open.
Benefits to Your Bottom Line
If your computing capability in the office is high-end, the ability to remote in can put your most advanced technology on a basic laptop that doesn’t offer that much computing capacity. Of course, cloud computing is a must.
If you have a program at the office that requires exceptional and additional security, the RDS software you have in place can be the difference between getting productive work done and risking your client information and proprietary data.
Great no-contact and on-line access has become important in the 21st century, but 2020 turned the world of business upside down. Your employees need to be able to work from anywhere, and a quality RDS system can make this effective and secure for all of your clients.