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.
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.
Managed print services (MPS) are more critical than ever before in a hybrid workplace. Not only does MPS help to provide a more paperless office, but it also delivers other benefits. For one, it is good to have top-notch managed print services to help combine work-from-home and in-office employees. Other benefits of MPS are as follows:
Print costs consist of the price of maintenance, supplies, equipment, supplies, wasted paper costs, printer fleet's IT management, and energy costs. However, MPS can reduce these costs by up to 30%, according to Gartner.
MPS optimizes the optimization of the print fleet's management and infrastructure. You can remove aging and redundant equipment to the right-sized fleet, standardize copier/printer models, perform constant print device monitoring, and more.