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The UK government is starting to lift the lockdown, with many businesses already making the return to their place of work, and many set to return throughout June and July. There are many factors to consider when reopening, but one your business may not have considered is the potential for upgrading, improving, and investing in your business infrastructure. With the offices and warehouses empty, now represents a perfect opportunity to make some broad changes to the way your business operates. With minimal disruption to day-to-day operations or night-time office overhauls needed, now is the right time to give your business infrastructure the refresh it needs to bring your business technology up to date.

Updating the Office: Workstations, Networking, and Beyond

Offices have an entire ecosystem of technology you can look into to make improvements, starting with individual workstations. Consider when the last time your workstations were updated; if you work in an industry where high-performance systems are necessary, yours may need updating sooner than you may think:

• Laptops and desktops may need maintenance, upgrades to the latest components, and similar adjustments to make them suitable for modern workloads. Make sure you view the ASUS Vivobook range for powerful computing on the go.
• Displays are often ignored. Modern displays offer higher resolutions and refresh rates along with a suite of other improvements, ideal for those in creative spaces. A good display is also important for eye health, with many modern displays offering blue-light filters and similar health considerations. Finally, displays have come a long way in a short time. Multiple displays, ultra-widescreens, and so on; depending on your requirements, there are many options for optimising office productivity and work efficiency. Find the perfect display for your business with ASUS. Why not start by viewing the ASUS MX34VQ UWQHD ultrawide monitor?
• Ergonomic, modern peripherals. Aside from mice and keyboards, there are likely many tools you aren’t aware of that can improve the way you work. One such example is the AiMic dongle, a new ASUS product that turns any 3.5mm jack into a USB-C device for clear AI-powered noise cancelling. Make sure you browse the ASUS range for more innovative products.
• Other devices, such as digital pens, tablets, and networking devices.

Your networking setup may need addressing. Depending on when your office cabling and/or server was installed, now presents a perfect opportunity for your business to upgrade your network, whether it’s a more modern server configuration, or higher-speed cabling to deliver higher transfer speeds to and from your servers. Wi-Fi may also play a part in this decision-making, whether it’s to upgrade your current set-up or to install Wi-Fi to an office that’s still focused on wired connections. Modern Wi-Fi configurations offer mesh solutions, ensuring there’s high-speed wireless internet across the office, with no dead zones. Our recommendation for a strong Wi-Fi mesh set-up would be the ASUS AX92U and similar ASUS multi-pack solutions. Finally, as part of these changes, remember that many of your staff will be returning devices to the office upon their return. Many will need maintenance and updates, as they may not have been managed by IT during their time away from your office network.

Consumer-Facing Environments

In today’s current climate, contactless payments are the default method to ensure individual safety – that of the customer and the employee – and now is the time to question your own installations, and how updating them may not only provide a safer working environment for staff, but a focus on a more efficient, flexible workplace for the future. Modern interfaces and point-of-sale devices can be quickly implemented in your current workflow, allowing you to virtually say goodbye to cash registers and physical transactions, making the move to digital payments and the benefits to business those provide.  

See our article on making the move to digital payments.

 

In the Warehouse: Speedier Logistics

The warehouse environment is a complex series of moving parts; packages, products, personnel, and more are all moving fluidly through the building, and an incredible amount of data about them is constantly being updated and delivered. Take this time to ask yourself: Are your warehouse systems and devices up to standard, or are they in desperate need of a refresh? Pay particular attention to on-person devices, which your staff are using for much of each workday. If these are slow or sluggish or presenting other issues, they’re directly impacting how effective your warehouse is operating. The same applies for your server configuration that these devices key into. A strong localised server will enable speedy updates and data transfer, meaning faster stock updates, logistics management, and so on. Finally, it’s worth stopping to consider how AI systems can aid your business. In a time where business systems are connecting devices together and delivering a smart stream of data you can use to make smart business decisions, you can’t afford to not keep pace.  

Make sure you read our article on the Internet of Things, and how it’s evolving the modern workplace.

  There’s been no better time in recent history for businesses to make leaps forward in their infrastructure than right now; with everyone away from the office, and the time to make sweeping changes, now is the perfect time to bring your business firmly into the 21^st century, with better systems, AI and smart data, and more, transforming the way you work for the better. Stay Connected, with ASUS.