While COVID-19 thrust the business world into a work-from-home and work-from-anywhere situation, now that businesses can resume office hours and re-open their doors, their staff requested hybrid schedules and hybrid office solutions. A hybrid work schedule means a few days in the office each week and a few days working remotely, whether that means working from their home or working from a travel location.
How Can MPS Work for Your Remote Employees?
That might seem to complicate an office’s printing needs, but it doesn’t need to do so. Your employees can still print to office printers using VPN access and the same keycodes they use in the office. At home, you might consider letting them print to their personal printers, but by using managed print services, you can provide them each with an office-grade compact printer or MFD.
Your managed print services provider provides the MFPs or compact printers under your contract. You can easily scale the contract by adding more compact devices as your company increases its remote workforce. These printers use the same keycodes the employees do in the office, so they don’t have to remember anything new. You retain the same streamlined budgeting mechanisms even when they work from outside the office.
These printing methods aren’t anything new. For many years, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) outfitted its examiners with portable printers, long before it was cool. Its examiners travel throughout the country to conduct audits and have to print on demand. Other examples of careers that have long used the MFD method include traveling salespeople, sports coaches, and business consultants.
These employees can pick up supplies from the office when they work in-office hours, or you can have the managed printer service company ship directly to them. The method used depends on your business’ procedures.
Contact United Business Technologies at 877-917-0100 for more information on managed printer services and hybrid office solutions. We maintain office locations in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.