Mobile Working
Mobile working keeps businesses working past office hours
More and more people are working away from the office, both at home and on business trips in the UK and abroad. Most businesses also employ sales staff who cover specific areas or regions.
Taking advantage of this can give your business many advantages and give your employees more power at their fingertips then ever before. The proliferation of mobile data products has enabled businesses to increase and improve their flexible working practices. Any business that isn't keeping apace with developments is missing out.
Wireless networks, PDAs and notebook PCs, high speed broadband, collaborative software tools among other things, are playing an important part in changing the face of working culture.
Most organisations today are now much more dependent on information technology, and access to IT systems has become either a mandatory part of many job functions or a key enabler of efficiency and effectiveness. Another trend that's had a huge impact is the degree to which everything is becoming connected electronically-people to people, businesses to businesses, markets to markets, etc. A recent trend is the emergence of virtual organisations in which is people come together via telecommuting and work collaboratively without there being any physical office building. They could be working from home, café or even while on a train journey.
Mobile working advantages are:-
- Allowing previously fixed parts of the workforce the freedom to work from home or other locations.
- Businesses may be interested in lowering overheads, or for flexibility reasons
- Deliver faster, more improved services
- Give employees access to more of the internal systems in businesses
However, like any advancement there are real security issues. As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated, they become less secure, according to research firm Gartner. And the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.
They rated laptops and high-capability PDAs as being the highest-risk objects when it comes to portable devices and security, and even highly prevalent consumer devices such as iPods pose a threat, given their tendency to be used as storage devices by some users.
Fortunately, help is at hand. MailSure has many years of experience providing support to businesses. We are able to facilitate mobile working by:
- Supplying top brand laptops and mobiles from companies like HP, Dell, Sony etc
- Install, configure and manage virtual private networks
- Provide wireless networks
- Create, install and manage extranets
Let MailSure assist your organisation and leverage additional benefits from your systems and the latest technologies