Technology scales the capacities of small and mid-sized businesses. Services that were once available only to the workforce of large corporations have moved down to small businesses. Capability expands and levels competition between big and small companies. Everybody wins when technology extends choice and capacity.
The pandemic forced businesses of every size to embrace creative solutions to support a symptomatically sick workforce. Remote officing became the way to keep the business going. Where working from home was once regarded as a whim it is now regarded with accepted benefits. The new remote workforce is not going away.
For a business to effectively support remote work, it must move beyond short-term solutions and creative hacks. Remote work must feel reliable and sustainable to your team or it will erode workforce morale and customer confidence. Done right, distributed officing creates lift instead of drag.
There are multiple terms that describe work outside of the office—working from home, distributed officing, or remote workforce, to name a few. Becoming the norm in new hire conversations, these phrases indicate that remote work is now what a lot of people do, and will continue to do for the foreseeable future.
There are multiple terms that describe work outside of the office—working from home, distributed officing, or remote workforce, to name a few. Becoming the norm in new hire conversations, these phrases indicate that remote work is now what a lot of people do, and will continue to do for the foreseeable future.
Consider the Benefits of Remote Workforce Solutions
Cast a Wider Net – Your most talented workers may not be local. In the past, these potentials were not considered to be part of your talent pool. Today the pool is global. And the incentive for talent to work for/with smaller businesses is great. Working with smaller businesses has the appeal of more significant roles and making a noticeable difference. For self-directed workers, there are greater opportunities for autonomy and purposeful collaboration. For this generation, remote officing is leverage for considering and accepting an offer and for sticking around.
Can Teams Feel Closer When Apart? – Office politics, overbearing personalities, and side conversations are all part of generations of workplace dynamics. Not all of these are good for productivity and morale. Just as tech leveled the playing field between large and small businesses, remote officing levels communication between workers. Daily meetings can be brief but focused and rabbit-hole email threads can take a backseat to archivable/re-readable team chats. Output can be maximized while allowing individuals their own flexibility in how and when they produce.
PCC brings learned experience and best practices when setting up and maintaining technology, security, and workflows to support your remote workforce. There’s more to distributed officing than a laptop and an internet connection. There is a right way to manage IT and policies without creating difficult hoops that slow your workforce down.
PCC understands common work-from-home challenges. We set clear remote work productivity standards. We identify and provide the right tools. And beyond the technology, we guide your business in proven methods for remote team interaction. We assure everyone has devices that fit their needs while maintaining the capability to configure devices remotely to maintain software licensing, versioning, and cybersecurity. Ideally, the remote office worker is indistinguishable from a workgroup distributed across cubicles or different floors of common office space.
Let PCC enable your business with remote workforce solutions. We remove the guesswork and offer control so you can offer your team greater work-life blending, control over their commute, access to opportunities, improved inclusivity, diversity, and exposure to new ideas.
Call us at 925-261-3908 to learn more about our managed IT services and how we can help you with remote workforce solutions.