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Making the Tech Transition to a Home Office
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Making the Tech Transition from a Corporate Job to Home Office
BY DEDE CATSAVIS
prospective
Aclient called and asked if we could help him transition from his corporate job – where he had an IT staff at his beck and call - to semi-retirement in his home office. He needed a new computer, a second monitor, a new printer, and, I suspected, a new router as well. I told him we do this all the time, and have helped hundreds of ‘retiring’ execs who want to set up and work from their home offices. I recommended new equipment and software that would meet his needs based on what he said he was going to be doing. He wanted us to source all the equipment – some of it hard to come by these days – and set up his home office within the next week. So, we did. Jeff Bannister set up all his new equipment, transferred data from his old computer, showed him how to toggle between his screens, replaced his outdated printer and router, helped him switch from slow internet to fiber optic and then showed him how to use all his new stuff. The client was ecstatic, and even wanted to tackle a few more projects on the same day – so we set up some ROKU’s and showed him how to stream from the Spectrum app and a few other tricks. Jeff left with a very sizeable tip (not necessary, but much appreciated) and indicative of the client’s happiness. Since the original setup, Jeff has returned once or twice to fix a problem caused by a recent lightning strike and to show the client a few more things regarding scanning, cloud backups and file management. We are on call every day for these types of opportunities and love helping people make a seamless, smooth transition to their home offices.
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