Tag: wfh

Did the pandemic just kill off the Corporate Network?

November 20, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

Since the start of the year, and the beginning of the pandemic pretty much everyone’s work and personal life has been distrupted. High streets are empty, offices are earily quiet and gyms, well I don’t know – I don’t ever visit them 😉

But aside from my lack of cardio action in 2020, many workers are now working from home, on kitchen tables, home offices and sofas – whilst IT teams scramble round to get laptops so people can work, and install security tools to protect their data. So why bother with a corporate network any more?

The long-term demand for remote work

September 23, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

Whilst everyone initially thought the global pandemic was going to be a brief event which blew over and like returned to normality, it looking increasingly likely that the truth is rather different. Habits are being changed, lifestyles and different and employees are demanding more from their employees. How do businesses, especially those heavily reliant on ‘places of work’ react to these changes, ensuring their employees stays efficient?

GSuite upping their game

July 30, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

A couple of weeks back, Google announced huge changes in their GSuite platform to try and compete in the collaboration space vs the Office 365 behemouth, but also to try and compete with business going for ‘best of breed’, such as Zoom, Slack & Box amongst others. Have they gone far enough – and how does it stack up against its competitors?

Enabling Microsoft Teams en-masse for your Business

March 30, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

With the WFH being the most used acronym on the Internet over the past few weeks, and challenges a lot of IT departments are facing, I thought it would be useful to explain for the Office 365 users amongst us how to enable Microsoft Teams for all your users and create those teams quickly whilst ensuring it’s done in a controlled manner.

Just to call it out here, but the scripts here aren’t my work, and I’ll link to where I found the golden nugget of information.

Coronavirus IT Checklist

March 21, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

With most businesses sending their staff home, I thought I’d put up a very quick post to share a few thoughts, and ideas for smaller departments or those without a Coronavirus Task Force. I’m happy to keep this up to date with any suggestions from you LinkedIn or Twitter folk for anything that I’ve missed, so throw me some suggestions! I’m going to include a few companies that have reached out to me over the past couple of weeks with useful free trials of their software which could be helpful.

Fighting the war against Coronavirus with technology

March 15, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

A lot has been said over the years of various revolutions which changed the face of the earth as we know it. Typically they were kick-started by a major event, whether that be an invention or a war but had a major impact on everyone’s lives at the time. This time, the major event is an pandemic, but how can we use the technology at our disposal to win the war?