There is always something that requires employees to work from home. Last week it was the general strike, but a few weeks ago it was the underground strike. Over the winter, parts of Britain were badly affected by flooding and in the summertime, some parents can be left stranded at home when their child care arrangements go wrong.
The patterns of modern working life have evolved significantly over the past few years. Workers are rarely in the office all week, with many combining office and home working. Demands for flexible working have also increased as employees of all ages want to balance their working lives with their responsibilities.
Businesses that run their IT through the cloud, using services such as a Desktop as a Service, (DaaS), often referred to as a Hosted Desktop Service, are able to offer seamless remote working to their employees. Selecting a Hosted Desktop Service involves outsourcing the company data and IT to a Hosted Desktop Provider who will manage it in a secure UK datacentre behind corporate grade firewalls and deliver it to users over the internet at a low cost monthly rate per user. The Provider gives their customers the very latest software and performs regular data backups on their behalf.
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