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13 Reasons to Design a Custom WordPress Theme

Building a WordPress website is easier than building a site from scratch because there are so many modular pieces that fit together to create whatever website design you might want. However, you don’t have to use all pre-made pieces to craft your perfect website. In fact, it’s often best to choose exactly the right pieces…

7 Winning Strategies for Managing Your Remote Workforce

As more and more companies move to a posture that includes remote work, it’s becoming more critical for managers to adapt their management style. Gone are the days when you could stick your head in your direct report’s office to ask how they were doing. As the work landscape changes, so too does the most…

Tips for Successfully Leading a Remote Workforce (Without Micromanaging)

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations are scrambling to find effective ways to manage their remote workforces on a scale never seen before. Unfortunately, there isn’t much time to plan remote work strategies or acquire hardware and software solutions to ease the pain. The shift to telecommuting is bound…

The Do’s and Don’ts of Video Conferencing

With remote work moving from being simply a commonly accepted practice to the norm, it’s also led to a rise in the number of video conferences remote teams are engaging in. Video conferencing is a great way for remote teams to communicate. It allows them to hear and see each other, capturing facial expressions and…

Staying Connected When Remote

The COVID-19 response has led to a widespread shift to remote work in the professional world. For some companies, it’s just an extension of an already accepted practice – after all, remote work is constantly growing in popularity. In the U.S. alone, 4.7 million people (or 3.4% of the population) work remotely on some level.…

4 Best Practices When Working From Home

It’s becoming an increasingly good idea to work from home these days, given the money and effort, you save in commuting or making employees commute, and given the fact that it protects you from threats like the coronavirus. Here’s some information about the best business practices in regard to working at home and making sure…

Overcoming the Challenges of Working from Home or Telecommuting

On the surface, working from home can be an enormous advantage in terms of both comfort and cost. However, there are challenges. Working from home is not an isolated practice. According to a Gallup Poll recently cited by CNBC, 43 percent of American workers work from home at least occasionally. U.S. Census data indicates that…

6 Must-Have Tech Gadgets for Remote Worker Success

As more and more companies are adopting Telecommuting, Distributed Workforces or are just offering the option to work from home, employees are finding themselves ill-equipped when it comes to having the right devices and technology at home. In this post, I’ll share my recommended list of devices you should have in place. The Cheat List:…

A CEO’s guide to keeping remote workers safe when it comes to cybersecurity

Let’s face it, the dynamics of business are changing and natural disasters are not making it any easier. As a result, many businesses are faced with the need to implement remote work, work from home, telecommuting and distributed workforces but what are they doing to keep their company secure from modern cybersecurity threats? With that…

Business Continuity Planning for COVID19

As novel coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnoses continue to increase around the world, I wanted to share with you not only what Applied Innovations is doing but some resources we’re preparing for your business to use as well. Applied Innovations is committed to providing a safe environment for our employees and ensuring business continuity, in service to…