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The massive shift to remote work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most critical challenges small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Chicago and the whole world are facing today. SMBs can’t just send their employees home with a laptop and hope everything pans out.  A productive business requires the right tools to manage remote workers seamlessly.  Here are five crucial solutions you can get from a managed IT services provider [...]

Working from home has many distinct benefits for employees. They can set their own hours, avoid the dreadful morning commute, and get some peace and quiet from the office chatter.  But it doesn’t mean remote workers are free from IT headaches. There’s always a possibility that computers will slow down to a crawl or cybersecurity issues arise. What’s important is that your remote team has adequate IT support whenever they need it.  Here are seven [...]

As the United States heads into the fifth month of the world’s longest remote work arrangement due to COVID-19, business leaders from Illinois to Florida are already planning a more permanent solution for when the crisis ends. Tech corporations including Twitter and Facebook have announced that employees can work remotely forever if they so choose. Experts even predict that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) throughout the country will follow this trend as well.  While industries [...]

Reactive network management methods are a time consuming and relatively cost inefficient method of IT moderation with today’s necessity for uninterrupted network connectivity. When daily issues and outages occur, reactive network methods struggle to respond fast enough to minimize downtime and losses. Because of the increasing volume and frequency of problems businesses experience daily, proactive behavior has become the most efficient and effective manner of solving your network problems. Rather than waiting for issues to [...]