When you consider your businessā investments, you probably think about things like the hardware your team uses and the software this hardware supports. You might think about the furniture youāve purchased to outfit your office. However, one often overlookedābut incredibly importantāelement that needs some level of investment is your employee satisfaction.
Weāve been examining the concept and phenomenon known as procrastination in recent weeks, touching on why we do it and how it often manifests itself in business processes. For our final few parts, weāll be focusing on how you can stop procrastinating by utilizing both quicker, short-term tactics and long-term, sustained changes. Letās start with some short-term tactics.
We recently started to pick apart the concept of procrastination as a means of understanding it better, and potentially, getting better at not doing it. Last time, we touched on a few ways that procrastination can potentially manifest, so it only made sense to us that we would continue pulling that thread and try to help you identify how you tend to procrastinate more specifically.
āNever put off until tomorrow what you can do today.ā Itās timeless advice, as well as some of the easiest and most tempting advice to ignore. Procrastination is one of those things that we all assume we understand, but we wanted to take a bit of time to explore it in greater detailā¦and figure out how we can all work to resist it.
Who are you? While itās a question thatās been asked in all contexts with all levels of metaphysicality attachedāfrom asking someone their name to prompting someone to follow a path of spiritual self-discoveryāthe growth of the metaverse once again urges us to ask it in a more literal way. When accessing a conglomeration of various services and platforms, how many identities will each user need to juggle?
Have you ever gotten a message that just makes your heart sink in your chest? Like, your dread piques the moment you see it? Chances are pretty good that your team members feel that way whenever you send them a particular message, particularly during certain times. Letās consider why this may be the case, and how you can better manage your communications to more effectively communicate with your team.
How many of your employees do you think hold a second job? This isnāt a particularly outlandish concept, but one thing that has come about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its surge of remote work is that some employees hold two jobs at the same time, and not in the way that you might expect.
When it comes to your businessā cybersecurity, it can be too tempting to operate under the assumption that the few cybersecurity events you hear about on the news are all that happen. Unfortunately, this is far from actual fact. Letās review some of the statistics that might change your impressions, especially if you hold the aforementioned assumption.
Due to the almost faceless nature of many cybercrime acts, it can be easy to see them as nothing more than the acts themselves, which is of course not true in the slightest. Behind these attacks are people, and where people performing illegal acts are concerned, there will always be concerns about other criminal acts which perpetuate the ones at the surface.
Even if mobile malware doesnāt have nearly as much of a presence in the cyber threat landscape as other major threats like ransomware variants, it is still just as dangerous under the right circumstances. An Android banking malware called Sova, for example, has returned with a vengeance with additional features to make usersā lives miserable.
Look, we get it: remote work has become a bit of a topic of contention lately. While employees have been relishing the benefits that remote work offers them, many employers have been doing everything they can to bring their workforce back into the workplace.
Now, it wouldnāt be unfair for you to assume that we would push remote work as a managed service provider because we just so happen to assist businesses in managing it as a part of our services. This is true enoughā¦but we arenāt the only ones with an opinion on the topic.
User authentication is a critical security feature for a business, specifically because it helps to minimize a significant threat to your business. This is why weāre so adamant that you should require multi-factor authentication wherever it is available⦠but is a better way to authenticate your users on the horizon?
The past few years have made many people understandably antsy about their health and spending extended amounts of time around other peopleāwhich can make coming into the office a very, very stressful experience for some. How can you make your office a healthier place so your team can feel a little more secure as they work?
Many businesses were very suddenly introduced to the capabilities of modern collaboration tools, as⦠circumstances forced them to either go remote or cease operations for an unknown amount of time. However, while collaboration tools were suddenly a requisite for work, could these tools now be responsible for isolating your team members from one another?
One of the great obstacles many businesses have to remote work is the fact that, well, the team will be remoteānot in the office, safely under supervision. This has led many to consider using the webcams installed in their employeesā devices to keep tabs on them. Letās explore the idea of monitoring your team, and why it probably isnāt a good one.
When we talk about data privacy in a business, the default is to generally think about the data the business has collected and compiled from its clientele. However, thatās just one type of data a business has. Thereās also a lot of data that is collected by the business about that businessā employees. So, how well protected is this data?
While remote work has been a relatively new option for many businesses currently using it in their operations, it has already shown considerable benefits. Having said that, it would be incongruous of us if we didnāt also acknowledge one glaring issue that remote work has helped to foster: a sense of disconnect in many of those making use of it.