Businesses all over the world are rapidly embracing remote and hybrid working across their teams. In certain cases, remote working processes and solutions were implemented quickly as a response to COVID-19. Moving towards a remote workforce doesn’t seem like a massive shift but a short time in you may be feeling there are certain solutions that are working well and some that need some optimisation.

As your business starts to experience the effects of working remotely and starts to see the benefits, then is a great time to re-evaluate your solutions to help your team become even more productive while maintaining the same security as if they were onsite. Here is a few tips to help making the switch to remote working a bit easier.

 

1) Connectivity Speeds  

Not all internet connections are made equal. A mix of different technologies and hardware, locations and more means that not everyone in your team may fall under the same connection umbrella. These discrepancies between connections may limit your ability to use video conferencing applications, collaborate in real-time and much more. This may mean that you need to plan your teams routine around the member with the slowest connection.

 

2) Secure Remote Access

Will your remote team's need access to secure applications, storage or other services with sensitive data? Would team members connecting with a VPN be enough or is a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)  solution a better solution. You may also need to update and monitor permissions as team roles and circumstances change. You may even need to revoke access when an employee leaves. These challenges should be considered when deciding how your team will access you sensitive data and how you can control it.

 

3) Asset Management

It can be extremely annoying to find out that the document you need for a job is sitting on your desktop at the office and you are unable to remotely access it from home, to prevent this from happening solutions like Microsoft 365 can help by allowing secure storage across multiple devices from Windows and Mac to iOS and Android.

 

4) Collaboration

Being in a different location to the rest of your team doesn’t mean that teamwork, brainstorming and meetings can take place anymore. By implementing and utilising one of many collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams or Cisco Webex; your teams will be able to have one-on-one and group meetings as well as collaboration sessions while retaining extensive security policies. These solutions also make use of your devices built-in microphone and camera meaning that one device can achieve so much more than just access the web.

 

The new modern world means teams aren’t always in one place, so you need the right tools to bring your team together and help them boost productivity and efficiency whether on premise or in the cloud. Want to see how CloudX can help your team achieve seamless remote collaboration? Schedule a call