How Managed IT Services Can Help You With Multitasking

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The definition of multitasking is the performance of more than one task at the same time. The brain must rapidly switch between task to task. Depending on how many tasks you’re trying to accomplish and how difficult those tasks are, the less effectively the brain can switch between them, resulting in a possible decrease in performance. For the majority of people, the idea of multitasking can be quite difficult. About 2.5% of people can manage more than one task at a time. Continue reading to learn how this relates to you and your organization.

How Does Multitasking Relate to Managed Services?

As previously mentioned, attempting to accomplish many things at one time and juggling from task to task can have a negative impact on productivity and efficiency. As a business owner, you have innumerable responsibilities on your hands. An extremely important task that you must deal with is making sure that all employees are doing what they need to do to accomplish the goals of the entire company. Although you have to delegate some responsibilities to management to ensure business operations run smoothly, you still have to make sure that managers are doing what is expected of them. More than likely, you have to be the face of the company. This means that you’re likely to be involved with community outreach and communicating with clients and the select vendors that your organization works with. Other job tasks you may have include ensuring your company is following all the rules and regulations set by the city as well as the state and federal governments. Lastly, the direction of sales and marketing efforts of your company will also be under your discretion so you will also have to balance that responsibility.

It is evident that as a business owner, you have many responsibilities to juggle. Hopefully, multitasking comes easy for you. On top of all those responsibilities, you definitely can’t forget about IT support for your company. Technology is the backbone of an organization. Without it, business operations will more than likely fail. Or if you constantly have IT issues, productivity and efficiency will plummet tremendously. This is where managed IT services come in. By utilizing managed IT services, you will have less things to worry about as a business owner. Your employees will also not have to deal with any issues involving software, hardware or anything else related to IT since IT support will be a phone call away.

Managed Services Will Keep Your Company Supported and Secured

With AE Technology Group, your company’s IT infrastructure will be one less thing to worry about. This allows you to focus on the things that really matter within your organization. At AE Technology Group, we will be able to take care of any issues you or your employees may have, remotely. All you have to do is give us a call or send us an email. Give us a call today at (516) 536-5006 to learn more about how our managed IT services will be beneficial to your company.

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Downsizing Offices: Hybrid workplaces

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The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way business operations are run all over the world. Both in-person and remote operations provide unique value to the processes and procedures of an organization. Hybrid work has become a popular and possibly, the more preferred approach, by many employees as it gives them a more flexible schedule. Due to this, many businesses had to reconsider how their office space is being utilized and how much of that space is actually needed. Continue reading to learn how many businesses are reassessing their office setups as a response to these changes.

Businesses Are Utilizing Less Space

A workplace management software development firm, Robin Powered, released a study in July that asked 247 respondents who are in charge of their office space and documented their responses. Robin Powered, then, created the 2022 Office Space Report with the statistics as follows:

  • 11 percent of businesses are continuing to use all of their available office space
  • 46 percent of organizations were using, at most, half of their available office space
  • 48 percent of respondents were using less of their office space before the pandemic
  • 60 percent of those organizations that were using, at most, half of their office space had started downsizing before the Covid-19 pandemic even began
  • 46 percent of businesses plan to continue reducing their available office space in 2023 with 59 percent of them planning to reduce the space by at least half

Some Businesses Might Not Be Cutting Down Their Office Space But They’re Using It Much Differently

The businesses that are not reducing their available office space are choosing to use it in a different manner. Research director of International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Future of Work, Amy Loomis, states that many organizations are remodeling extra office space for increased flexibility. In other words, the removal of cubicle desks allows for creation of multipurpose rooms and collaborative technologies in order to connect in-person employees with those people who work remotely. 

International Data Corporation administered a survey back in April that revealed companies around the world are adapting their approach in the workplace. Instead of being seen as an area where employees physically go to work to be productive and efficient, the office is becoming more of a collaborative space for training and meetings.

With Today’s Technologies, Hybrid Operations Are Much Easier

With the advancements in business information technologies, a hybrid schedule for employees has become much more accessible, while providing them with a more flexible schedule. Collaborative tools such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Docs, and Zoom allow for teamwork and cooperation from all employees, whether they work from home or in the office. 

We can help you turn your office space into a hybrid-friendly area for increased productivity and efficiency. 

At AE Technology Group, we can offer you and your team various IT services, solutions, and softwares to help implement hybrid operations within the organization. By doing so, employees will continue to collaborate with each other while also having a flexible schedule to allow for a better work-life balance. Give us a call at (516) 536-5006 today.

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The Major Takeaways from the Big Facebook Outage of 2021

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Unless you live under a rock and somehow missed it, Facebook experienced an outage, an inconvenience that kept users from accessing its services all over the world. Perhaps to your surprise, the real ramifications of this outage have nothing to do with people not being able to share pictures of their cats or yell at each other in the comments.

Let’s take a look at the event and what your business can learn from it.

The True Scope of the Outage Went Far Beyond Facebook

The fact of the matter is that not only was Facebook impacted, but so too were the other services it has acquired over the years, including an unlaunched web operating system called Parakey back in 2007 and the CRM platform Kustomer in 2020. Rest assured, Meta (the company that Facebook is owned by) also owns other services that were affected by the outage.

The big issue is that businesses relying on Facebook and its other applications were also impacted by the outage. WhatsApp, for example, is a VoIP and messaging application used by many organizations, so if Facebook goes out, then it stands to reason that this would create problems for any companies that rely on it. It’s the same case for any service that uses Facebook as its login credential. Users simply were not able to use these services during the outage.

You can see how one outage can set off a chain reaction and create problems for countless organizations around the world. It just goes to show that you can’t always rely on one particular solution or service for all of your needs.

Your Company Needs a Backup Plan

If some businesses were crippled by the Facebook outage, then imagine what would happen in the event of a Google or Microsoft outage. Granted, you could be using a solution that is not affiliated with either, and that could go down just as easily. It’s safe to say that no business is immune to this challenge, so you must do what you can to prepare for it.

The key to solving this dilemma is to use the business continuity planning mindset to your advantage. With business continuity, you are actively preparing for your business to not have access to assets that allow it to function. In other words, you should have a contingency plan in place, and your employees need to be able to make the shift regardless of where they happen to be working. If you can make this happen, then you’re in a good spot.

We Can Help Your Company Prepare for Any Kind of Disaster

There is so much that can go wrong for your business, especially where data and access are concerned. Let the professionals at AE Technology Group put your minds at ease with our managed services. To learn more, give us a call at (516) 536-5006.