The ultimate list of home working questions and considerations

Starting point; Key questions and considerations

a. Assess the impact to the business due to loss of staff

• Would home working help?
• Who can home work effectively?
  • Office workers
  • IT
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Admin
  • Accounts
  • Etc.
     

b. What business or personal IT equipment do staff have?

• What phone equipment do they have (business & personal)?
• What internet access do they have?
   

c. What remote access systems are in place?

• How many users can the remote access VPN support (any licence or capacity limits)?
• How to prevent Data Leakage?
• Printing needs?

d. Do they have a suitable home working space?

• Risk assessment
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e. How would staff communicate?

• Internally
• Externally
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f. If full home working isn't viable would partial home working benefit?

• Part days
• Some days
   

g. What non-IT resources are required?

• Filing
• Stationary
• Meeting rooms
• etc.
   

h. How to manage home workers?

The answers to these questions will help you identify what actions you need to take to enable remote working in your business.
 

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