Work From Home Solutions | Chino, CA

The 2020 COVID 19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way many businesses operate. Numerous organizations have moved to, or are considering, a permanent remote workforce, while others are seeing the need for a hybrid environment to be prepared for potential future shutdowns and other events that would require employees to work from home. This isn’t an easy transition for many, especially smaller businesses that lack the IT resources to get their staff set up at home with the right hardware and software essential to continued engagement, productivity and security.

Determining the right IT solutions for a full or hybrid remote work situation is critical. Inland Productivity Solutions has worked with many businesses of all sizes and in numerous industries to set up their remote and home office technology solutions to enable employees to work productively anywhere.

Our work from home technology solutions focus on the four primary levers of for a secure remote work environment and a productive remote work force:

The right hardware

While most companies these days equip their employees with laptops, either exclusively or in addition to desktops, in many cases employees will be using their own devices to work from home, or the company may need to supply it. It’s important that whatever computer your employees use from home have similar features and the same computing power as their office devices. Other hardware you want to consider are printers, headsets, and webcams if not built into the computers.

Reliable connectivity

Most broadband home internet access is sufficiently fast for handling typical business traffic, even data-heavy applications such as video conferencing. However, now that entire households are using bandwidth at the same time for work, school, streaming and gaming, most home WiFi routers are inadequate in providing consistent, fast and reliable data speeds. Based on your employees’ individual situations, we can recommend upgraded routers or ethernet connections as better options to maintain productivity.

Robust collaboration tools

Your team needs the ability to collaborate on projects and tasks just as effectively as if they were together in the office. Fortunately, there are many options for apps and platforms that enable project transparency and real-time collaboration. Based on your needs and budget, we can recommend and implement the appropriate tools and technology to enable your staff to share and work jointly on documents, to conference with telephony and video apps, and be able to communicate more effectively overall.

Top-notch security

Cybersecurity needs to be a top priority, especially for remote and home work environments. This involves both technology and policy to safeguard your systems and data. This can include providing a business-grade virtual private network (VPN) and remote desktop protocol (RDP) with proper and sufficient licenses. We can also recommend the appropriate firewall and other security protocols, such as data encryption, multi-factor authentication and password requirements, and policies regarding employee-owned devices (also known as BYOD – “bring your own device”) and usage of unsafe WiFi networks, such as public WiFi.