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Communication & Document Management Lessons to Learn from Remote-First Companies

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Now that the world has been plunged into working from home, we all have a lesson to learn from the companies that were prepared for this. These companies—which promote a remote-focused work environment—are being looked at as a role model to follow in the current crisis. Remote-first companies include leaders like Stripe in finance, Zapier in automation, InVision and Sketch in design, and Doist in project management. What puts remote-first companies ahead of ‘remote-friendly’ ones is their commitment to fully digitizing their workspace. Sure, every company can handle letting a few employees work from home, but in the current COVID-19 crisis, these remote-friendly companies are  struggling to operate their business outside of a designated work environment. To combat this, here’s some lessons we can learn from remote-first companies on how to carry on business as usual during a pandemic. How to communicate (effectively) outside a physical space One of the benefits of working out of a cent

Tips on the Best Backup Practices

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  Data loss: every company learns to dread this term. No matter your industry, you handle data in some form or another. This data—all this information—serves as a foundation for your entire business. You cannot run a company without information about your clients, your finances, your employees, or even your daily coffee runs. (Okay, maybe not that last part, but you get the point!) We’re trying to emphasize on the importance of backing up your data, and doing it the right way. As experienced vendors of document management solutions (DMS), we’ve compiled some of the best practices to implement when backing up your files. We hope you find these tips insightful. Digitize Your Documents Alright, you can call us biased all you want, but it is a fact that paper documents are not secure! Managing paper documents is costly, space and time consuming, and most importantly, difficult to truly backup. Sure, there are facilities to physically backup your documents, but they come with downsides of t