Microsoft 365 has some amazing productivity and collaborative tools already built in.
Did you know that within Teams there’s a useful project planning tool?
Watch our short video for the lowdown on how to use Microsoft Planner.
Many businesses have now shifted into a new way of working. A hybrid way.
Some people have gone back to the office and some people work from home. If you’re , typically, in an office based role then you now need to be able to work from anywhere at any time – it should be possible – and it is possible.
Right now we’re all looking at hybrid setups.
The perfect technology that allows you to collaborate and work efficiently, whether you’re working from home or at your workplace.
The rapid call to work-from-home has resulted in a shortage of new laptops along with webcams and headsets used for online communication with Skype, MS Teams, Zoom, etc.
Whatever you have decided for your business and your staff, it is important that security, backups and staff vigilance for phishing attacks continues
With the latest announcement from the government, it is important that you know that tKnowIT is able to provide you with your normal IT support, monitoring and maintenances services.
This includes businesses who currently don’t have a support agreement with tKnowIT but need help on a pay as you go basis. tKnowIT can help with IT systems, assistance with staff working from home, auditing and securing their machines, etc.
It is sad to see so many businesses are having to shut their doors until this all blows-over but I’m in the fortunate position that a lot of IT tasks can be performed remotely.
Since I sent out the checklist for businesses to consider how staff could work from home things have moved on rather rapidly and we are heading for a full lockdown in the UK. Many businesses have staff in self-isolation at home and everyone should be social distancing.
Your urgent Coronavirus checklist
To ensure your team can work as normally as possible from home
On the 3rd March, the Government published their Coronavirus action plan. In his address, Boris Johnson said that up to a fifth of UK workers “could be off sick at the same time”
In our current situation with the threat of CoronaVirus and its potential impact on business continuity and productivity, there is a need to think more about what happens if your systems become unavailable for any reason.
Managing multiple projects with lots of different contributors can be a real headache.
Unless you use one of the world’s favourite collaboration tools – that you may already be paying for.
Using Word, PowerPoint and Excel is so much fun now. Because there are so many things you can do with your documents.
Like scribble notes on them. Perfect when you’re using a tablet.
And did you know, there’s a functionality called Ink Replay that allows you to literally watch the exact moment you scribbled the note again.