EQMS helps snowbound workers to remain connected
Disruption caused by the heavy snowfall could cost UK businesses about £1bn, business groups have estimated. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) estimated 20% of the UK’s working population, or 6.4 million people, did not make it to work.
Although these figures are worrying, especially if as predicted the weather continues to make commuting hazardous, the advent of cloud computing and web based applications such as EQMS have made it easier for colleagues to remain connected with their co-workers over long distances.
Working from home has been a common practice for some years now, there's nothing new there. What EQMS offers is the ability to access your secure documentation online, safe in the knowledge that you're using the most current versions, not the one that’s been sat on your laptop for ages. If your company's SOP has changed whilst you’ve been cut-off by the snow, how would you know? With EQMS the access and viewing of current company documentation can all be done from the most simple of home pc’s, an internet connection and a web browser. You are notified of changes to documents and can securely access them from within the browser, without the need for the most current software applications.
If you need to share a document you’ve been working on and want your equally travel impaired colleagues to review something you've amended in the Quality Manual, then all that needs to be done is a quick upload of the document to EQMS and all the rest is taken care of. The relevant people in the review process will be notified automatically, and are able to open the document and make comments, again with only the need for a web browser to run the EQMS application.
To understand further how we have been helping our clients communicate effectively over long distance please click here to visit our case studies.
Mike Bendall. To contact Mike email: mike.bendall@qualsys.co.uk
For information about Qualsys contact Robert Oakley on +44 (0)114 282 3338.
Email robert.oakley@qualsys.co.uk
15th January 2010
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