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Every tax season, businesses trust their accountants and tax preparers with their most sensitive financial information. From employee Social Security numbers to company revenue reports, this data is highly valuable—and highly targeted by cybercriminals. But how secure is your CPA’s system? Are they following cybersecurity best practices to keep your business safe? Many business owners…
How Poorly Designed Work From Home Policies Affect Your Business (Working From Home During Coronavirus)
Companies that previously laughed at the idea of working from home are now desperately wondering how to keep themselves and their employees productive during the realities of work-from-home-life. It’s become clear that remote working policies should be covered by your BDR (business disaster recovery) plan as well as hygiene and social distancing for those who…
Working From Home During Coronavirus: Must-Have IT and Technology Policies
A large part of preparing for the current coronavirus crisis is having a plan in the event that most or all of your employees need to stay at home or self-isolate. This is a great time to draw up a BDR (business disaster recovery) plan to ensure continuity of business or update your existing one.…
The New Reality of Working Remotely with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis
Working from home is the new normal for a lot of workers in the US, and around the world. There has been much debate about working from home and whether or not it’s a productivity boost or productivity drain. Skeptical managers envision employees lying on their couches at home in Metallica concert t-shirts eating Doritos…
Essential Tips (Both Technology and Non-Technology) for Remote Workers During the Coronavirus Crisis
Many companies are implementing mandatory or voluntary working from home procedures, some never having done this before, during the current coronavirus crisis. These work from home situations might make you and your staff feel less productive and less visible from home. In light of that, here’s some tips to help you make the most of…
How Coronavirus Is Affecting Remote Working Policies and Working From Home
The once skeptical manager on whether working remote would benefit (or hurt) their company, need not be skeptical any longer. We’re all being forced to consider working from home, like being shoved in the small of the back into a reality only once imagined in an H.G. Wells novel. With the current Coronavirus situation, companies…
When Our Clients Make the 2020 list of Top Places to Work in MA, We Celebrate with Them
Every year, The Boston Globe releases their list of Top Places to Work in Massachusetts. The Globe creates this list by polling thousands of employees across the state. The poll seeks insight on their experiences and attitudes about their workplaces. However, unlike previous years, 2020 faced a global pandemic. So, this year the Globe placed…
Working From Home: How To Prepare Your Business for Coronavirus, Technology, and Remote Workers
The days of your employees and staff working 100% percent of their work lives under the same roof are gone. You might have a few employees who DO primarily work in one place, but the Coronavirus crisis has taught us all a few lessons about being prepared for your staff to not work in your…
Coronavirus, Technology, and Remote Workers: How Your Business Can Prepare for Coronavirus
Businesses around the world are starting to wonder exactly what the coronavirus (dubbed COVID-19) means to them, and how they should prepare for the virus if an outbreak happens closer to home. At Cooperative Systems, we believe that the safety of our employees and customers is paramount. We also believe that businesses should be able…
10 Tips For Website Accessibility: Your Website Accessibility Checklist
When it comes to how your company is being represented online, aesthetics and volume of content are not the only significant factors in how “accessible” you are. Website accessibility should be approached similar to the way an architect needs to look at an office building or other facility. That is, you also need to take…
National Clean Out Your Computer Day 2020
Every second Monday in February the National Day Calendar reminds us that it is National Clean Out Your Computer Day. This is an official reminder to take inventory of our hardware, software, documents, and apps and channel our inner Marie Kondo. We are antsy to get started on spring cleaning now that Punxsutawney Phil did…
Grow Your Business: Measure and Improve Your IT Operational Maturity
Business owners everywhere can agree that building and fortifying your operations takes a huge amount of work, planning, time, and resources. This is the case regardless of the size of your organization, and no matter whether your business is just starting out the gates or whether you’ve been around for 20, 50, or 100 years.…
What Is The Dark Web And Why Is It A Threat To My Business?
You’ve probably heard bad things about the dark web, or Darknet as it is sometimes called. With “dark” in the name, it even sounds scary… but do you know what the dark web actually is? In this post, we explain the what, where, and why of the dark web and how it might affect your…