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Flex Desk, the new widget for hot desking
Ensuring that your employees can adapt to hybrid working can be complicated. The Flex Desk widget from Powell Software makes it easier, allowing employees to hot-desk and book their spaces before coming into the office. ...
June 16th, 2020
It’s Time to Switch from Skype to Teams -Here’s How to Do It
It’s official: Skype for Business is dead. In multiple 2020 announcements, Microsoft disclosed that it had initiated an end of life program for Skype’s enterprise-oriented software. The platform will be effectively retired as of July 31, 2021, and all remaining business customers should migrate from...
June 16th, 2020
10 Intranet Security Best Practices for Remote Workers
Remote working is laden with benefits for companies and employees alike. But employing a remote workforce isn’t immune to its own set of problems, and intranet security is among the top concerns. Corporate security is enough of a challenge when company secrets remain, for the most part, confined wit...
June 9th, 2020
How Powell Governance supports Powell Intranet for more connected employees
Over the last few months, organizations have been confronted by an unprecedented situation that led many collaborators to discover remote working for the first time. This resulted in an explosion of video conferences and remote teamwork, imposing tools like Microsoft Teams at the center of business ...
June 8th, 2020
Mastering Digital Communication in the Digital Age & Workplace
Unless you’ve been operating under a rock, chances are your company relies on digital communication on a day-to-day basis. Digital communication tools power both internal and external initiatives, from team collaboration to sales strategies. While it’s easy to sit back and let these tools do all the...
June 2nd, 2020
The Future of Work in a Post-Pandemic World
The rapid onset of COVID-19 gave us very little time to prepare for what few anticipated would be a permanent shift in the future of work. Companies dove headfirst into the digital workplace, rapidly adapting to new tools and habits. While the first few weeks were incredibly demanding, most have now...
May 26th, 2020
How Can You Keep Your Remote Team Connected?
Remote workers have a physical disconnect to an organization due to their location, but when this generates feelings of detachment and isolation everyone suffers. Decreased productivity, lower engagement, higher staff turnover, there are many costs with a disconnected remote workforce. So how can yo...
May 22nd, 2020
Designing an Employee Experience Strategy for the Digital Workplace
Employee experience (EX) is a term that has long been used to describe how satisfied employees are with their day-to-day lives at work. But with remote working trends on the rise, there’s a new topic being discussed: digital employee experience (DEX). As more companies go virtual, adapting employee ...
May 19th, 2020
AFM-Telethon’s digital transformation with Powell Teams
AFM-Telethon, historic customer of Powell 365, is strengthening its digital transformation project with the addition of Powell Software’s new solution: Powell Teams, Microsoft Teams’ adoption and governance application. We asked Karim Guenaneche, Office 365 Global Administrator at AFM Telethon, abou...
May 12th, 2020
Shadow IT: How to Win Back Control Over Your Company’s IT
As business software becomes more and more user friendly, employees and managers are finding that they no longer need to seek help from the IT department before downloading and installing their own solutions. This phenomenon, known as shadow IT, poses obvious risks to company security and productivi...
May 5th, 2020