Throughout 2020, many BPOs and contact centres felt the impact of a worldwide computer supply shortage. The world’s leading hardware manufacturers and suppliers shut down production during the initial stages of the pandemic, crippling an industry that was already under pressure due to a shortage of Intel chips. The global, emergency shift to a work-at-home model and the surge in hardware sales for domestic use for online schooling put supply chains under immense pressure.
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3 ways Contact Centers can use BYOD to increase value to customers
Industry experts rate work at home provision as a vital tool in the belt of any contact center. As of now, the ability of organizations to work remotely will be at the forefront of the customer’s decision-making process when considering contact centers. Â Industry expert Mark Hillary sees the significant benefits BYOD can provide to work at home strategy, as well as insight into the blended model of on-prem/work at home that is becoming more popular. Building off of this topic, in this blog, I wanted to touch on how BYOD can enhance contact center’s offerings to their customers in 2021 and onwards, specifically in terms of:
Why your corporate devices are unsafe for work at home
With the sudden and dramatic shift to the work-from-home model (WFH) in early 2020, IT security teams have raised a host of important questions. How secure is corporate data saved locally on unvetted, uncontrolled machines? Are corporate machines inherently secure in WFH deployments? Is there an increased likelihood of data leakage and other cyber-breaches in the WFH environment? For TrendzOwl, the recent history of cybersecurity tells a complex story, raises a host of additional questions, but ultimately also reveals new possibilities for the WFH model going forward.
Validation Tool: Onboarding your WaH employees in minutes
For many, the new normal of barking dogs and working in pyjamas has been firmly cemented. Many companies have embraced work at home (or a hybrid model of work) and are noticing higher levels of productivity, employee satisfaction, and of course, a substantial reduction in operational costs.
Work at home (WaH) is certainly here to stay. But with this brings its own level of complication, particularly around recruitment and onboarding. Traditionally aspects of HR, recruitment and onboarding now require many hands to carry out this vital aspect of the employee life cycle. With the variation in home environments, testing of things like bandwidth speed, hardware specification, and operating system compatibility are all vital, as such the importance IT has in onboarding, especially now, cannot be understated.
Hybrid Working: Three factors companies must consider
With Google announcing that they will be giving their staff the option of hybrid working when their offices re-open in June, we are already seeing major organizations attempt to integrate work at home into standard business practice. Hybrid working (or work from anywhere strategy, as referred to in our recent webinar with Anne Bibb) can be seen as the best of both worlds for employers and employees.Â
The Next Normal | What does 2021 hold for the BPO Industry?
2020 has been a year of disruption for all. Now that it is coming to a close, we ask what can 2021 hold for the outsourcing and BPO industry? To provide some understanding of exactly that, ThinScale hosted a webinar with an all-star panel of experienced professionals in the outsourcing sector – providing key takeaways from 2020 and insights into 2021. This blog is a summary of the key talking points in that webinar.Â
Fortify business resilience with ThinKiosk
At the beginning of 2020, companies faced a drastic and sudden shift in their business continuity planning, where work at home quickly became the only viable solution. This resulted in companies, en-masse, moving devices from location to their employees’ homes to continue operation.
This “Lift and shift” method companies were using prioritized speed and accessibility above all else. The most important thing was getting people working, accessing business-essential applications from home. This mostly took the form of a standard windows machine and a VPN to provide a secure connection. However, this method left much to be desired. In this post, we’ll be going through some of the challenges companies faced when employing this strategy of work at home enablement, what we can learn from these challenges, and how ThinKiosk provides an endpoint solution that improves companies’ business resilience.
Secure Remote Worker and ThinKiosk 6.2
Version 6.2 for Secure Remote Worker and ThinKiosk has just been released, and with this new version comes a host of enhancements to the existing framework which can be seen here. However, in this blog I wanted to run through the major additions that have been made to Secure Remote Worker and ThinKiosk.
ThinKiosk & Secure Remote Worker 6.1
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We are happy to announce the release of ThinKiosk and Secure Remote Worker 6.1, bringing a host of enhancements to the existing control features and additions to the end-user experience. In this post we’ve selected some of the major additions to speak about in this update.