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One truism that can hurt any business is, “You don’t know what you don’t know.” Often, over time, we work in systems we’ve grown used to, sacrificing potential productivity for familiarity and comfort. That’s what Tom Jarry, Director of Engineering, recently encountered with a mid-sized manufacturing client with about 50 employees. “We completed a Technology…
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…
Tech Warnings: 2020 Cybersecurity Predictions and Advice
Tech Tips from CoopSys – Episode 8: 2020 Cybersecurity and Tech Warnings What better time than the start of the new year to reflect on what we have seen and learned over the course of the previous year! In our latest episode of Tech Tips from CoopSys we review some major 2019 cybersecurity developments and…
Speed Up Your WiFi: 3 Ways To Improve Your Business WiFi
When you’re trying to figure out how to speed up your WiFi, we always suggest starting with this oh-so-timeless IT advice:Try turning it off, waiting 10 seconds or so, and then turning it back on again. Believe it or not, this simple reboot is often enough to considerably improve WiFi speeds. Reboots don’t need to…
2020 Best Places To Work in Connecticut: Cooperative Systems Honored
Cooperative Systems has been named among the Best Places to Work in Connecticut. This fifteenth annual program was created by the Hartford Business Journal and Best Companies Group. Prior to this year Cooperative Systems appeared on the list of Best Places to Work in Connecticut in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and last year, 2019.…
Prepare For 2020 Cybersecurity Cold War
One of the leading providers of cybersecurity solutions worldwide, Check Point Software Technologies, released what they think is a 2020 cybersecurity cold war brewing and what that might involve. What they came up with is a shortlist of the possible major cybersecurity events and developments they anticipate will have a serious impact on businesses and…