How mobile working helps companies maintain productivity in times of the coronavirus

There are many views and opinions on the coronavirus. But all experts agree on one thing. We have not yet reached the peak of the epidemic. Many companies cancel events, do not allow appointments abroad or, like Ernst & Young, send their employees home. For the companies, this means high financial losses, even threatening their existence.

Mobile working enables companies to meet their care obligations towards their employees with regard to the coronavirus, while at the same time enabling them to work from home.

Many companies, such as Ernst & Young, have already geared their organisation towards distributed, mobile working with absolute trusted working hours. Advantages exist not only in exceptional situations such as those caused by the coronavirus, but also in "war for talents". Mobile working is very often expected of new employees today.

Of course, mobile working is not suitable for every workplace, just think of production or retail stores, but a large part of office workplaces are suitable for it.

No company can switch its IT infrastructure to mobile working from one day to the next. If necessary, new infrastructure must be ordered, installed, configured and installed. IT admins must be involved also trained ...

This is where Cloud Desktops come in. These run on server farms in the secure data centre of the provider. These Cloud Desktops can be accessed from almost any end device, even from the private PC of the employee, and that without compromising access and data security. There is no need for complex end device setup.

The cloud desktop environment can be connected to the company network via VPN tunnel and thus access all resources of this environment. For the employee in the home office, the Cloud Desktop behaves like a desktop workstation in the office.

Cloud desktops can be set up within a very short time, even with a connection to the corporate network. Because all previous applications are usually installed, employees do not need to be trained in a time-consuming and costly manner.

The desktops are billed on a monthly basis according to the pay-as-you-use principle. Although there are also models that offer per-minute billing, it usually quickly becomes apparent that these models do not pay off in practice.

With all the advantages, no matter whether with regard to coronavirus or "war for talents", the topic of data security/DSVGO should not be ignored. For European customers, the providers datacentre should necessarily be based in Europe and the provider should be a European company. Even large German providers with American parent companies are questionable. Due to the American "Cloud Act", which allows the US government to access data of subsidiaries even across national borders, these providers are not DSVGO compliant. We recommend European companies (without non-European parent companies) with data stored exclusively in Europe.

Cloud desktops offer the possibility of maintaining work productivity in companies in times of an epidemic or pandemic. In addition, they offer the possibility to enable mobile working quickly and securely.