Businesses that enable remote working do find that many employees are more productive when they don’t have to deal with rush-hour traffic, nosy colleagues or a noisy work environment. Embrace flexible working with VoIP. Gone are the days when you were expected to be in office all days of the week and z.
More than 44% more businesses have embraced remote working over the last 5 years because of the following reasons:
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- Flexible working location
- Simple call forwarding and routing
- Easy mini telephone conferencing
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1. Flexible working location
With VoIP there is no such thing as a fixed location. Once it has been set up, a phone can be moved to any location providing that location has an internet connection, and start receiving calls again once it's plugged in.
So, if someone spends a large percentage of their day on the phone talking to customers, this needn't be affected by working from home. All they need do is unplug their phone and take it home with them and they will be able to carry out their duties as normal.
2. Simple call forwarding and routing
Why limit an incoming call to just one location? With a VoIP system you can easily set an incoming call to ring on multiple destinations at the same time, so if you have employees at work and home simultaneously, you might choose this so whoever is most ready to take a call can answer it first.
3. Mini telephone conferencing
If something vitally important comes up where you need to speak to more than one person, sometimes a group email is simply not urgent enough or practical enough to hold a meeting over. This is where 3-way calling can come to your rescue.
In the wake of the recent developments, a number of businesses have started advising employees to work from home in the ongoing bid to curb the outbreak. Many big companies have released contingency plans to UK-based staff that include compulsory working from home. It is hoped that keeping employees further apart from each other, it will reduce the chance of group spread as well as the opportunity for the virus to be caught during a commute or in communal office spaces.
27.5 million employees within the private sector might be forced to work from home. Not all the staff have the appropriate technology for this. Never before has the topic of remote working been so important to business. As a large part of the UK workforce working home, there is an increased need for using the desktop clients to take calls.
Although the government hasn’t yet specifically advised all businesses to follow suit and adopt remote working yet more companies are adapting this practice. It’s realistic to assume that shifting to the ‘home office’ will become the new normal for many of us for a while, given recent announcement by the World Health Organization that the coronavirus has officially reached ‘pandemic’ status.
Are you tech-ready to work from home? Remote working is now a need for businesses and not a choice. Make sure it is business as usual, no matter where you work from. Savincom is here to support you with the rapidly changing needs, helping you to work from home.
