Want more productivity in your company? Then go and build it.

Since the home office years, plenty of companies have noticed that neither an employee's sense of responsibility nor their output drops when they work from home. Quite the opposite. Some surveys report performance up by as much as 23 % when people have conditions that respect their work-life balance.

The question is what the company provides so that a person can work at any time, from anywhere, and still stay connected to everyone else.

One way to make your people considerably more productive is the Microsoft 365 cloud platform.

Picture a situation where all your staff can reach every document they are entitled to see, whatever device they connect from. Where everybody always finds the latest version, or easily looks up its history, or simply restores it after a loss or an accidental deletion. And there is more. Microsoft 365 lets several people work on the same project at the same time, which makes coordinating and exchanging views inside a team much easier. All it takes is an internet connection, and it makes no difference whether someone connects from a Mac, a Windows machine, a tablet or a phone.

Yes, we know what you are thinking. Security. Microsoft 365 holds high standards for protection and privacy, from security updates and data encryption through to multi-factor authentication. It will even warn you about ransomware or a malicious attack and help restore files in OneDrive to their previous state, so the attackers cannot reach them. On top of that, every company device can be checked and managed remotely, so your data and information stay under control.

Another significant advantage: the applications update themselves to the latest version, without you having to think about it or do anything at all.

Do get in touch about designing, setting up and tuning the whole thing. We will help you pick the package that suits your needs and your rhythm best. Putting it in gives your people more flexibility, along with a few other tricks we will come back to in a later post.