{"id":6948,"date":"2020-09-25T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carecomputers.co.uk\/?p=6948"},"modified":"2020-09-25T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:00:48","slug":"managing-devices-securely-in-a-remote-working-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativeideasfactory.co.uk\/carenew\/managing-devices-securely-in-a-remote-working-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing devices securely in a remote working climate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the government encouraging businesses to return to the office, many are still operating fully remote workforces. This is due, in part, to the growing realisation that working remotely has not had the negative effect on productivity that was initially feared back in March 2020, at the outset of the Covid-19 lockdown \u2013 in fact, many companies have reported an increase in productivity among their employees.<\/p>\n

Some businesses are creating a hybrid model; enabling a combination of office and remote working. Social distancing requirements mean that few organisations can accommodate the full workforce at any one time, and some employees need to keep working remotely due to COVID-19 related issues.<\/p>\n

A recently published BBC article<\/a> outlines how \u201cfifty of the biggest UK employers\u201d have no plans to return to full office-based working, while a further 20 of the largest businesses have no current plan to bring any workers at all back into the office.<\/p>\n

Some smaller firms are intending to do away with business premises altogether, acting on the positive reaction to home working from their employees. A survey carried out by Cardiff University and the University of Southampton<\/a> reports nine out of ten employees that were catapulted into home working in March wanting to continue with remote working in some form, and organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of being able to offer this flexibility.<\/p>\n

But in order to be able to do so, a business needs to ensure that their workforce has the technology to work productively, safely and securely, from wherever they\u2019re based.<\/p>\n

Intune is Microsoft\u2019s cloud-based solution that enables just this, giving businesses the functionality to expertly manage mobile and desktop devices and applications from anywhere.<\/p>\n

Supporting platforms like Windows, Windows Mobile, iOS, and Android, Intune offers businesses the ability to manage mobile apps on personal devices and does so without compromising employee privacy.<\/p>\n

Intune offers users:<\/strong><\/p>\n