3 Gifts for Your IT Team

The holiday season has arrived! Why not give the IT professional in your life a few things that they’ve been wishing for all year? Macro Systems has compiled a list of gifts you can give them, some of which will cost you and your business nothing.

Security Consciousness
It isn’t a holiday-themed tale, but the story of Sisyphus would is relatable to most IT professionals. In the tale, Sisyphus is doomed to an eternity in the afterlife spent pushing a massive boulder up a hill, only to have it repeatedly roll back down when he nears the summit. Many IT professionals might relate as they run between security problems that your employees can cause through their actions.

An increased awareness of security concerns and procedures would make a great gift for your organization. After all, if your team knew how to avoid issues, the result would be fewer issues for IT to juggle, thus freeing them up to tend to their other responsibilities.

More Cloud
The cloud is a valuable solution and few in any business see that better than the IT department. Not only do cloud technologies and services remove many of the time-consuming and outdated tasks that IT has to handle, it permits them to improve the business in other ways.

If given the ability to utilize the cloud more, your IT resources could deliver benefits to your organization in many more areas than before.

Upgraded Working Relationships
The IT team can get a raw deal sometimes. Not only do they have to keep the company running, they also have to deal with the other people involved with the organization.

Speaking bluntly, they often have to shoulder the frustrations that the rest of the team has when they can’t deliver as fast as the rest of the team wants and thinks they need. One of the best gifts that you can give them is a policy of hearing IT out. They have greater insight into the workings of the organization and the impact that one initiative will have over another on a business’ workflow. There needs to be trust that the decisions they have made at a given time are not without reason, and that those reasons may not be apparent to an outside perspective at first.

Encouraging the rest of your IT team to keep this in mind year-round will help to make IT’s job a lot less stressful.

If you want a gift that the overworked IT resource would appreciate, try a managed service agreement with Macro Systems! We can lend a hand, permitting your IT resource time to take a breath between their many responsibilities and to focus on the quality of the job they do. Give us a call at 703-359-9211 to learn more.