It’s been great to work with Tony Bowden from Smart Communications SW Ltd on the businesses supporting key workers campaign which involves putting these super banners up all around the city for nurses, doctors, retail workers etc to be able to see - here’s Go Gloucestershire Communications Ltd sign below on Finley road roundabout 👏🏻🙌🏻
Great to show our support to all those who are working on the front line to keep us all safe!
How Businesses Can Prepare For COVID-19
How businesses can prepare for Coronavirus
It’s hard to ignore the daily COVID-19 (Coronavirus) news updates, with Coronavirus spreading across the world, countries going into lockdown, and trillions being wiped from stock exchange markets. The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has now published an emergency budget aimed at helping UK businesses brace for the impact.
With a growing concern that more of the UK’s workforce and businesses need to prepare for self-isolation, businesses are accelerating their plans to keep operating during these testing times. This article is to help you, as a business owner, put in place tools to enable your workforce to work from home with minimal impact to your operations.
Working from home
For organisations that can afford to have some, or all of their employees work from home during these difficult times, there are tools you can put in place to allow your staff to ‘keep calm and carry on’.
In today’s day and age, remote working is becoming more common place thanks to technology. Benefiting both parties, employees can work remotely when out on the road and can work from home to fit around family life. And for employers, you can retain talent within your business, as well as attracting new recruits by offering flexible working.
With all of the above in mind, as well as unsettled weather forecasts and infectious outbreaks to consider, enabling staff to work from home should be an important
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Speaking from experience
As a Managed IT Service partner, it’s in our nature to frequently road test our business continuity plans. Fortunately, we have put in place tools and cloud-based applications to enable agile working, which has helped during recent adverse weather conditions causing road closures, preventing some staff from driving to the office. By utilising powerful, yet relatively inexpensive tools and Cloud-based services, we can keep communications flowing, allowing our teams to share and save documents securely, and most importantly ensure that all our services continue to run smoothly for our customers.
Microsoft Teams
For starters we use Microsoft Teams, a secure chat-based collaboration tool (that the Ministry of Defence also use) to give remote and dispersed teams the ability to work together and share information. Individuals can use the one-to-one chat function and team chat (so not to block up email inboxes), and for document collaboration, acting as a secure central repository for files. Externally, we use Teams for some of our customer meetings using the video conferencing functionality, to help minimise travel time, costs and even our overall carbon footprint. You can also extend teams to your phone system, allowing you to have everything working seamlessly through one tool. You may find this Microsoft demo video helpful.
Cloud-based services
OFFICE 365
Office 365 offers several business benefits, boasting advanced security features, greater user productivity through collaborative working, and scalability, allowing usbusinesses to flex with a monthly licence subscription. This cloud-based system doesn’t ‘lock in’ like on-premise solutions – which can be more vulnerable to flooding, physical break-ins etc. but enables data to be stored in the cloud, securely backed up across multiple machines providing greater overall resilience. Our workforce can work from anywhere as and when needed, alleviating the concern over growing employee self-isolation.
WINDOWS 10 VIRTUAL DESKTOPS
Virtual Desktops allow employees to access their work computers remotely. They are a secure and scalable solution, whereby the operating system and personal data are stored on a network hosted anywhere (and not on the hardware itself), accessed using secure log-in credentials. Virtual desktops can be scaled from 5 individuals to 500+ people logging in, with no data ever leaving the data centre, keeping an organisations data secure.
CLOUD-BASED TELEPHONY
Cloud-based telephony is a solution to consider for future business continuity planning. It provides a portable solution, giving employees access to their phones from anywhere including smart phone devices. Scalability is a big selling point, with flexibility to add new users, numbers and even whole new sites through a web portal if needed. They have an uptime SLA of 99.999% and their own built-in disaster recovery plan when offices are no longer available. In our Service Desk environment, we have also opted for the soft-phone option, avoiding the need for handsets on desks, increasing mobility and saving money.
Proactive next steps
Hopefully, this article has helped shed some light on the tools and services you may want to consider putting in place to prepare for staff self-isolation and for a more robust business continuity plan. These tools don’t require heavy investment and can reduce costs, increase productivity and provide the necessary flexibility for individual business needs.
If you’d like advice or support on any of these technologies, please get in touch by calling 01452 238866 or email us at support@gogloscomms.co.uk and speak to one of our cloud service experts. Having tools like these in place will go a long way to improving your overall operational resilience and will enable flexible working.
For every new client order during the lockdown period , we will be donating money to the NHS - Please talk to us direct for more information.
Business Broadband - Pay £0 for the first three months
In these challenging times we are offering packages where customers pay £0 towards their monthly plan for the first 3 months, and can also get a discount of up to £480 for the remaining months of the contract. This means you can focus on getting the connectivity and tools to help your business adapt without worrying about the cost.
See popular broadband bundles:
Broadband Enhanced + Value line - 3 months free, then £39.99
Superfast Essential + Value line - 3 months free, then £36.56
Superfast Enhanced + Value line - 3 months free, then £42.27
Contact us direct for more information on 01452 238866 or email sales@gogloscomms.co.uk
All business product prices exclude VAT at 20%. Offers subject to availability and may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Terms & conditions apply to all offers. E&OE. * £0 for 3 months offer available from 8th April 2020 to 30th June 2020.
Remote Working Made Simple
At Go Glos Comms, we now have 90-day rolling contracts available to support businesses within this COVID-19 period. We have SIM and DATA only SIMs depending on your requirements, and we have options to hire equipment.
O2 SIM Only Deals
500MB, 500 mins & unlimited texts
£11.50 per month
5GB, unlimited calls & texts
£14.50 per month
8GB, unlimited calls & texts
£17.00 per month
24GB, unlimited calls & texts
£21.00 per month
Unlimited data, calls & texts
£25.50 per month
O2 Data Only SIM
2GB £9.50 per month
6GB£12.50 per month
12GB £15.00 per month
20GB £18.00 per month
30GB £20.50 per month
Unlimited £29.50 per month
Device Hire Solutions
Mid Range Smartphone
£38.50 per month
iPhone
£66.00 per month
4G Mi-Fi Router
£13.20 per month
Dongles & Mi-Fi's
4G Dongle £49.95
4G Mi-Fi Router £79.95
Voice Only Basic DevicesEnergizer E12 £12.50
Energizer E241 3G £29.95
Nokia 105 =£16.49
Basic Android Devices
Alcatel 1C £49.95
Alcatel 1 £69.95
LG K30 £99.00
Moto G6 Play £99.00
We are here to support your business and keep you in operation.
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Offer Your Business TRUE Resilience In These Worrying Times
These are critical times for businesses, so it's important to ensure you and your staff can work together through these tough times together!
Go Glos Comms can help set up you and your staff with remote access VoIP telephones lines and IT services to ensure your business is protected and secure through this current worldwide epidemic!
Please contact us ASAP to discuss your available options, we are offering a FREE no obligation review to all businesses that need our support. Please call us on 01452 238866 or email support@gogloscomms.co.uk
Please read more here on VoIP services: https://www.gogloscomms.co.uk/voip-telephone-systems
WINDOWS 7 NO LONGER SUPPORTED - ACTION REQUIRED!
WINDOWS 7 NO LONGER SUPPORTED - ACTION REQUIRED!
If you are still using a Windows 7 PC or laptop, since the 14th January 2020 there will no longer be any support offered, there will also be no security updates, potentially leaving you vulnerable to malware and hackers. For businesses, it also means you won't be GDPR compliant.
Please get in contact with us direct to manage this migration for you and to ensure that you and your business stay protected. Please contact us on 01452 238866 or email michael.stanley@gogloscomms.co.uk.
Free ‘New Year, New Start’ no obligation telecoms and IT review for businesses!
Free ‘New Year, New Start’ no obligation telecoms and IT review for businesses.
Let Go Gloucestershire Communications see what you can do to help improve the way you communicate to your customers and reduce costs by using the latest communications technology. Give us a call on 01452 238866 or email sales@gogloscomms..co.uk
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Check out some of our testimonials here: https://www.gogloscomms.co.uk/testimonials-gloucestershire-communications-telecoms-it-support
Free Online Telecoms And IT Advice - Go Glos Comms LTD
Go Gloucestershire Communications LTD now offers a free online Telecoms and IT support contact email address and chat box on our website to help people with any technology questions or issues!
For any free tips and advice on your telecoms and IT needs and requirements, please email us at support@gogloscomms.co.uk or click on our chat box on our website and will do our best to help assist you. You can also call us direct on 01452 238866.
We look forward to hearing from you.
We Can Now Offer Home Technology Support!
We now offer home technology support for any niggling issues that you need assistance with! Whether its your PC, phone, router etc, we can help!!
Please contact us direct if you need any home support or call us on 01452 238866 or email sales@gogloscomms.co.uk
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Free Winter Telecoms & IT Review For All Local Businesses
Go into the Christmas and the New Year reducing your businesses costs!
Go Glos Comms is proud to announce that we are offering all local area businesses a free no obligation telecoms and IT review. This will include a full face to face visit at your businesses premises, to review exactly where you currently are with your existing telecoms and IT setup, followed up with recommendations on how you can help reduce your costs and grow by using the latest telecoms and IT technology!
If your business is located in one of the following areas then please get in contact to arrange your free telecoms and IT review (completely no obligation).
Gloucestershire
Bristol
Bath
Swindon
Wiltshire
Oxfordshire
South Wales
Birmingham
Worcestershire
Herefordshire
West Midlands
Please contact us direct to arrange your free review and call 01452 238866 or email michael.stanley@gogloscomms.co.uk or please complete the contact form below and we will contact you.
