Access Cloud Hosting helps SeQure staff move seamlessly to home working and continue supporting their customers in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
"I am so glad the SQCP side transitioned to the cloud. It’s been a dream getting our staff to work from home, and with the option to take their cloud desktop phones home too, it’s been simple." - Michael Wall, IT Systems Manager
About SQCP
SQCP is a boutique recruitment solutions consultancy founded in 19 84 which focuses on providing the best recruitment solutions to their client's needs while helping their candidates to further develop their careers and knowledge base.
An established way of working
Access has been working with SQCP for over three years, providing them with infrastructure as a service solution using Access’ multi-tenanted enterprise public cloud. SQCP is free to manage the remote desktop solution for 60 users. This enables all of their employees to work remotely as if they were working in the office.
"This way of working wasn’t new to us. We were already using our computer desktops as dummy terminals. When our staff turn on their computers, they come onto the cloud login.
As soon as they’re logged into the cloud, they’re working away on all our servers, and all our data’s all in the cloud.
We’ve been using it that way for ages, without even really realising the benefits of it.”
Following the outbreak of the coronavirus and in line with the guidelines put in place by the government, all SQCP employees moved to home working. Their cloud hosting solution provided a seamless transition from office to home working, helping to take some of the stress out of an undeniably difficult situation.
"Of course, it’s a horrible situation we’re going through. Everyone’s going to be working from home. But because we were already set up with Access, staff could go home and work as if they’re in the office. They see everything they see in the office without any difference whatsoever.”
With a small in-house IT Team, Michael says that having staff already enabled and familiar with their remote working systems has really helped to take the pressure off of their limited IT resources.
"If we had had to do that set up for our staff, we’d have struggled because there’s only a few of us in IT. Typically it’s not a business where you need a lot of IT staff, but suddenly when you need them, and there are issues like this, it really pushes on our resources.”
This simple transition has meant the company has been able to really focus on supporting their customers and keeping them up and running following the outbreak.
"We don’t just support SQCP staff, we also help other companies as well, so we know the difference between having it in place and not having it in place. One company we work with, we’ve had to spend 3-4 days trying to get all their people laptops and try to connect them up to their own desktops in the office. There have been speed issues and connection issues, and it’s been a nightmare compared to how easy it’s been to move our in-house staff that are already on Access.”
Benefits of Access Cloud
- Staff could transition seamlessly from office to home working without any set-up needs
- All desktops, data, and servers are accessible to employees working from home
- Small IT team able to focus on supporting customers rather than in-house staff
"Because we were already set up with Access, staff could go home and work as if they ’re in the office." - Michael Wall, IT Systems Manager
