Do These 3 Things to Support a Remote Workforce

COVID-19 has made huge changes to the lives of almost everyone in the world, including in Indonesia. These changes include having to implement health protocols, maintaining distance from each other, working or studying from home, and many more. In some companies, remote working is nothing new, but for some offices and companies, remote working is something new that they have no choice but to implement.

Although in the last few weeks Indonesia has implemented a “new normal”, there are still some offices and companies that still implement a remote working system for their employees. However, as we all know, there are several factors that must be considered to be safer when working remotely. Such as security tools to secure company data and others. What should be done? Read the following article.

1. Initial Testing
   The first thing to do to support remote workers is to ensure that all aspects are running well, such as the computer used, whether or not the WiFi used is suitable, communication between teams, and so on. Why does this need to be done? Because this is useful so that their work continues to be carried out properly and avoids as little risk as possible which is also beneficial for the company not to waste a lot of time and money. It is even better if it is done periodically, for example once a month.

By doing these things as a consideration, you have supported workers who work remotely and can get more benefits because of the reduced risks that may occur.

2. Ensuring Security
   Next, which is no less important, is evaluating the IT approach to ensure network security and effective automation steps. A very important thing that you should consider is using a remote network monitoring tool to allow IT staff in your company to monitor the network with full visibility and mapping from any network device, anytime, and anywhere. So even though the workforce in your company works remotely, they can still monitor network devices easily.
3. Advanced Planning
   The last is to plan for unwanted possibilities that will occur such as the current uncertain situation. You can work around this, for example by planning a longer remote working system that is estimated to support your workforce in working remotely.

Those are 3 things that you can consider to support remote workers. On the second point, you can use NetMonk as a network monitoring application to facilitate network monitoring activities. If you are interested, contact our marketing team here. You can also request a NetMonk demo by visiting our website home page.

Reference:

https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/supporting-remote-workforce-covid-19