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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How to Better Communicate With Your Team

How to Better Communicate With Your Team

Have you ever gotten a message that just makes your heart sink in your chest? Chances are good that your team members feel that way whenever you send them a particular message, especially during certain times. Below we consider why this may be the case, and how you can better manage your communications to more effectively communicate with your team.

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Network Segmentation can Help Protect Your Business

Network Segmentation can Help Protect Your Business

As Miguel de Cervantes wrote in Don Quixote, “...is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.” It was wise advice then, and it’s wise advice today, especially when it comes to your business’ network and your data security.

Below we explore the concept of network segmentation, and how it can help to protect your organization.

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Remote Operations Need to Succeed Before Hybrid Can Work

Remote Operations Need to Succeed Before Hybrid Can Work

Whether we like it or not, remote work is not going anywhere, and now that employees have gotten a taste of what it feels like to work remotely, more are eager to do so than ever before. Unfortunately, the reality is that employers are eventually going to want their employees to return to the office in at least some capacity. How can employers do this without upsetting employees too much? The answer lies in a hybrid work environment.

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Exposing the Myth of Quiet Quitting

Exposing the Myth of Quiet Quitting

Quiet quitting…it’s a buzzword that many may misunderstand that has seen increasing virality on social media. Listed below is an honest evaluation on what quiet quitting really means, and what it means for your organization.

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Hybrid Work Practices are Changing How Office Space is Utilized

Hybrid Work Practices are Changing How Office Space is Utilized

Many businesses, seeking to balance the positives brought by remote work to the value that in-person, face-to-face operations provide, have leaned into hybrid work practices. This has led to many reconsidering how their office space is set up. How are these considerations shaping the modern workplace?

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Tips on Managing Remote Workers

Tips on Managing Remote Workers

Remote work remains a fundamental approach to workplace operations these days. While this has led to great opportunities, remote work adds a new level of complexity to managing your employees. Listed below are a few practices that can help make this management simpler and more effective.

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Virtual Workstations Can Help Your Business

Virtual Workstations Can Help Your Business

When you virtualize a software solution, you are basically storing it in an online environment where it can live. In other words, it remains in the cloud and is accessed via the Internet. This approach is helpful for many businesses, so why not flip this concept on its head and give hardware virtualization a shot? You might find that virtual workstations, for example, offer many benefits that can help your business be more productive and efficient.

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Explaining the Zero-Trust Model

Explaining the Zero-Trust Model

Considering what the modern cyberthreat environment looks like, more and more rigorous cybersecurity is strictly needed. One way that businesses can accomplish this is a cybersecurity practice known as a zero-trust model.

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Consider Employees' Reactions to Returning to the Office

Consider Employees' Reactions to Returning to the Office

You may or may not have already made the transition back to the office, and this especially applies more to those who haven’t yet. That being said, even those who have may find some utility here, specifically in determining if a push to a full return to office was the right move.

Let’s explore how modern employees may react to the news that remote work will no longer be an option.

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The Phenomenon of Technology Innovation During Hard Times

The Phenomenon of Technology Innovation During Hard Times

As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. This is clearly demonstrated in the perceptible phenomenon of technology advancement and innovation being enhanced in tough economic times. Whys is this the case?

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How to Use Technology to Better Manage People

How to Use Technology to Better Manage People

Being a manager is a far different experience than being an employee. So, when you promote one of your team members to this position—or perhaps you’ve recently been promoted to management yourself—it is critical that a few practices are incorporated into their new workflow. Let’s go over these practices, and how the right IT can help.

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Examining the Four-Day Workweek

Examining the Four-Day Workweek

The workspace is consistently changing these days, with remote work being commonplace, along with resignations in the face of a return to the office becoming more of a regular occurrence. Employees want more control over their work schedule so they can balance their personal responsibilities with their professional. A shorter workweek might be the key to making this happen.

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Solutions to Help Your Business Prepare for a Disaster

Solutions to Help Your Business Prepare for a Disaster

It doesn’t matter where your business is located; whether it’s a tornado that comes through your city, a structural fire that renders your office uninhabitable, or a wild snowstorm that brings down power lines or grinds travel to a halt, you’ll want to be ready for it all. Listed below are the types of solutions your organization can implement to ensure that no disaster, be it natural or artificial, like a cyberattack, puts a stop to your operations.

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Zero-Trust Security Explained

Zero-Trust Security Explained

With many people continuing to work remotely to at least some extent, it would be irresponsible not to acknowledge that remote work can introduce a level of risk to a company's cybersecurity. This makes it all the more imperative that this security is locked down. Listed below is a discussion about the concept behind zero-trust security, and why it is becoming the benchmark that businesses of all sizes should meet.

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A Look at How Collaboration Tools Affect Your Team

A Look at How Collaboration Tools Affect Your Team

Many companies were very suddenly introduced to the capabilities of modern collaboration tools, as… circumstances forced them to either go remote or cease operations for an unknown amount of time. That being said, while collaboration tools were suddenly a requisite for work, could these tools now be responsible for isolating your team members from one another?

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World Backup Day

World Backup Day

March 31st is the official World Backup Day, a day intended to remind us all of the importance of having backups for the sake of data continuity. While this kind of day can be a valuable reminder of an imperative best practice, we contend that your awareness of your backup, as well as the maintenance that goes with it, should not be limited to a single day.

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Can Bosses Monitor Their Employees Via Their Webcams?

Can Bosses Monitor Their Employees Via Their Webcams?

One of the great obstacles many companies have regarding remote work is the fact that, well, the team will be remote—not in the office, safely under supervision. This has led many to consider using the webcams installed in their employees’ devices to keep tabs on them. This idea of monitoring your team is discussed below, as well as why it probably isn’t a good one.

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How to Overcome Resistance to Change

How to Overcome Resistance to Change

Change, whether you’re referring to that of your technology or any other business process, is usually a point of contention between management and the rest of the business. Let’s explore this resistance to change that so many feel, and how you can help them overcome it.

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Four Steps to Evaluate Your Cybersecurity

Four Steps to Evaluate Your Cybersecurity

Gauging the effectiveness of your cybersecurity can be a daunting task, especially when asking if it could make a significant difference in protecting your organization’s network infrastructure. If you want to track and measure your business’ cybersecurity preparedness, here are four steps to help you perform an evaluation.

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Will Organizations Still Have Separate Departments Going Forward?

Will Organizations Still Have Separate Departments Going Forward?

HR. Sales. Customer Service. IT. Accounting. Management. These different business departments have been categorized and compartmentalized for decades, cooperating but mostly operating independently of one another. Will this remain to be the case, with so many people now working remotely and communicating with their teammates as needed? 

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