Home Working and Teleworking Solutions

If your staff are struggling to get to the office due to the current snow, it is only likely to get worse as we go deeper into the winter season. Opus Business Systems has a number of remote or home working solutions which can help keep your business in business this winter.

Remote Teleworking and Home Working Solutions

Opus Business Systems offers a number of cost effective and productivity enhancing teleworking and home working solutions, which combine the benefits to the business, individual and the environment with the wider issue of business continuity. To understand the benefits of teleworking and how you can take advantage of them, please read on.

The Term Teleworking

Teleworking was a term that, along with telecommuting, was coined back in 1973 by Jack Nilles who was at the time Director for Interdisciplinary Research University of Southern California having previously been amongst other things, a consultant to President Kennedy's and Johnson's Science Advisory Council, the National Science Foundation and other federal departments.

Teleworking Explained

In essence, teleworking is the ability to work offsite, for example at home, at a customer’s office or on the move, whilst being in some way connected to the firm’s communications or office business systems.

Internet technology has meant that employees have for some time had remote access to company email and intranet. Further advances in technology mean that employees can now have remote access to their office communications, via their mobile telephones, their portable laptop computers or via a local fixed land line.

Opus Business Systems can enable seamless office communications regardless of the employees location that will allow staff to not only make and take calls, but to collaborate with video conferencing and remote document and whiteboard sharing to facilitate virtual meetings.

Dealing with the Snow

With the coldest overnight temperatures and deepest snow ever for November in some regions, it looks like we are in for a tough winter.

For advice on how you can enable you staff to work from home if needed, speak to the team at Opus.