Work From Home - Remote Support

So, you've found a comfy spot in the living room, parked your laptop on the table, poured yourself some coffee, and in no time you're going through the tasks for the day. At the current pace, you'll be free by mid-afternoon, free and at home already. Working From Home seems just so easy!

And it really is, until your microphone stops working in the middle of a conference call, your printer refuses to print, the company portal or the email app don't let you in no matter how many times you type and re-type the same password you're using since forever...

When something breaks while you are at the office, you usually call the IT guy or that colleague who's good with computers, they come over to your machine, open some windows, press some keys, click here and there, et voila! Problem solved.

The same pattern is still valid now that you work from home, even if that colleague or the IT guy are not physically in your living room.

All you need is a way to let the techie interact with your computer, or - in other words - all you need is a Remote Support application.

As for every other kind of software, the offering of Remote Support applications in 2020 is quite overwhelming: TeamViewer, UltraVNC, Chrome Remote Desktop, pcAnywhere, AnyDesk, and a dozen more (did I already say "overwhelming?), each one coming with pros and cons.

Here at Jan IT, our Remote Support tool of choice is TeamViewer.

What our customers like the most is the easiness of usage. No matter if you're on a PC (Windows or Linux), a Mac, or an Android phone, getting support is just 3 steps away:

1. Download the program;

2. Install;

3. Share the details with your technician:

Pretty neat, right?

So, there you have it, a quick and easy way to get help when time is of the essence.

Of course, this is only half of the story, the other half being the IT guy who knows how to fix the issue no matter what, properly, as soon as possible. For example, us ;)