Were you as surprised as the rest of us to see the recent snowfall and ice warnings throughout Central Texas? Between the frozen precipitation and the earlier massive hurricane threats, your business may have seen more than its share of understandable absenteeism as the foul, dangerous weather forces significant portions of your workforce to stay home and ride it out. Don't be too surprised if spring and summer storms bring more of the same. Instead, create a workaround for ongoing productivity by beefing up your company's telecommuting strategies.

Think about the devastating effects extreme weather could have, not just on your productivity, but on the individuals who make up your team. On one end of the scale, you may have hourly workers who cannot afford to take time off – compelling them to race through hazardous conditions to get to their jobs. Even if they don't kill themselves, they could easily wreck their one-and-only transportation, making their continued employment impossible. On the other end of the scale, individuals over 55 face elevated health risks in extreme weather, making your senior staff vulnerable to catastrophe. Meanwhile, your half-empty office can't function normally, causing you to lose business on a massive scale.

Gravity Systems can help you put together alternative work methods through remote IT services and work-from-home technologies. For instance, we can set up a cloud computing environment that allows your employees to keep working together in real time. Remote desktop capabilities let your employees access their workplace data from their home computers. We can even bring off-site servers into play so your data is safe even when those killer storms rage through your location.

Don't entrust your company's future to the mercy of the elements. Contact us today so we can help you weather-proof your productivity!

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