Category: COVID

Mobilizing Technology for Effective Remote Working Environments

Mobilizing Technology for Effective Remote Working Environments

The practice of working from home has skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, as companies told their employees to stay home to comply with the widespread quarantine and social-distancing requirements. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have had to coordinate a sudden and massive migration to work from home (WFH) for almost all of their employees, using collaboration tools in ways that ...

How is Your Business Navigating to the Next Normal? Take this New SMB Group Survey

How is Your Business Navigating to the Next Normal? Take this New SMB Group Survey

In the past three months, COVID-19 has disrupted any notion of business as usual. SMB Group felt that it was critical to provide immediate data to understand its impact on small and medium businesses (SMBs), and the steps they took at the outset to weather the storm.

Building a Collaboration Strategy for The Evolving Workplace

Building a Collaboration Strategy for The Evolving Workplace

There’s no question that COVID-19 has forever changed the way small and medium businesses (SMBs) think about the “workplace”, shifting the concept from the physical world to a virtual one. Recently, Mona Abou-Sayed, Mitel’s VP of Collaboration and Applications, and I discussed this in a LinkedIn Live session, Building Cultur...

What Does an SMB Work-from-Home Laptop Look Like?

What Does an SMB Work-from-Home Laptop Look Like?

The practice of working from home has skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, as companies told their employees to stay home to comply with the widespread quarantine and social-distancing requirements. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have had to coordinate a sudden and massive migration to work from home (WFH) for almost all of their employees, using collaboration tools in ways that ...