Pugh Computers’ Modern Workplace Strategist, Mark Price talks about the positive impact their sustainable modern workplace solutions are having within the voluntary sector.
WHO WE ARE
Pugh Computers are a trusted WCVA supplier with over 41 years’ experience of supplying software licenses, hardware solutions and professional services within the voluntary sector.
Over the years, we have developed close, long-standing partnerships with technology companies such as Microsoft, Adobe and many others. This allows us to offer best-in-class software and hardware to our voluntary sector customers at heavily discounted prices, or even as free donations when eligible.
Based in Llanon, Ceredigion, we supply across the whole of the UK and are proud to offer our services in both English and Welsh.
WHAT IS A SUSTAINABLE MODERN WORKPLACE?
There are many factors that contribute to you becoming a truly effective sustainable modern workplace.
You may want to provide a hybrid working environment where staff and volunteers can work from the office, from home and even on the go.
You may want to reduce your carbon footprint and become more sustainable.
Or you may simply want to take greater care of your team’s wellbeing and ensure a healthy work/life balance.
Our sustainable modern workplace solutions involve a wide range of products and services. These solutions are flexible and bespoke to you. They are designed to empower your team to perform at their very best and achieve more.
Some of our most popular and successful solutions include high-quality modern meeting rooms/spaces, easily accessible cloud software, portable laptop/tablet end user devices, and flexible and resilient cloud-based telephony.
You can browse our full offering at our website here.
WHY BECOME A SUSTAINABLE MODERN WORKPLACE?
Flexibility
Powerful and portable laptops and tablets with high-quality cameras, together with noise-cancelling headsets and the right cloud software mean that users don’t have to be in the office to be productive.
Users can make and receive work calls using their devices, transfer calls to colleagues with clear availability statuses displayed, and even transfer calls to another of their own devices to carry on the conversation elsewhere.
This flexibility means that you can agree work patterns that suit both the organisation and the team members, allowing staff and volunteers to work during periods of maximum productivity for them. This can have a big positive impact on your team’s wellbeing and work/life balance.
Given this flexibility, security is a key consideration for any sustainable modern workplace.
Even though your team may be working from home or anywhere else off-site, your users and data are kept highly secure with constantly updated enterprise-grade cloud security, and your devices can be encrypted to mitigate potential loss or theft.
Cloud-based security also gives your IT team the added benefit of having visibility and control no matter where they may be. They can simply log in from anywhere, on any device, whenever needed.
Sustainability
Travelling is something that can be drastically reduced within a sustainable modern workplace.
Many of today’s meetings, presentations, webinars and events can be hosted online or hybrid, reducing the need to travel across the country or even the world. A modern meeting room/space lets you do this to reduce your carbon footprint without compromising on quality.
This could be a fully kitted out Microsoft Teams/Zoom modern meeting, conference or board room, or even just the right devices to create a small but effective huddle space.
Adopting cloud solutions, such as Microsoft 365 and Azure, is another effective way to become more sustainable.
For example, given Microsoft’s pledge to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove all the carbon produced throughout their entire history by 2050, why not take advantage of the cloud datacentres they have all around the world by moving away from inefficient on-premises servers and leveraging their world-leading cloud platforms?
This way, you are directly contributing towards this enormous global level sustainability action no matter how big or small your voluntary organisation may be.
You can find out how we at Pugh are committing to becoming more sustainable here.
CASE STUDY
Canolfan Cymunedol Mynach Community Centre
At Pugh, we take great pride in supporting the local community and our recent work with Canolfan Cymunedol Mynach Community Centre in Devil’s Bridge, Ceredigion has become a real success story.
Working closely with the Centre throughout the project, our IT Manager Elfed Jenkins was able to gather and understand their full set of needs before providing a live demonstration of Pugh’s own modern meeting room at our Llanon office. The Centre agreed that the proposed solution, including a large, height-adjustable interactive board and high-quality camera, was ideal for them.
Since installation and Elfed’s Welsh-language training, the Centre have found great success in hosting and joining hybrid online/in-person meetings and classes, providing presentations, using it as a digital whiteboard and even engaging with the local community by hosting movie nights and various other community events.
Many local community groups are now making use of and benefitting from the Centre’s modern facilities, including Merched y Wawr, YFC and the local Community Council.
You can read the full case study here.
If you’re interested in becoming a sustainable modern workplace, or if you just want some more information on anything you’ve seen, please get in touch with our friendly team of experts on 01974 200 201 or sales@pugh.co.uk.
We look forward to supporting you on this journey.