Quick access to expert information to meet the challenge of working from home

In order to support companies in these difficult times, the COSMO CONSULT Group has put together a package of measures with which organizations can set up decentralized structures very quickly. "As a first step, we showed our customers how to stay in touch with their employees when they are working from home. Because some companies cannot provide enough laptops, solutions had to be found that also included private end devices where needed", says Klaus Aschauer, Chief Customer Officer (CCO) of the COSMO CONSULT Group.  "Right now, around eighty percent of German companies have no remote workstations - and correspondingly little experience in this field." As a software and consulting company, COSMO CONSULT relies on modern cloud technologies such as the project and communication platform Microsoft Teams. The number of users of this tried and tested software tool has increased by 12 millions users to 44 million users within one week. Microsoft Teams runs on secure servers in the Microsoft cloud and is highly scalable. Because of the current COVID-19 situation, Microsoft is even providing the platform free of charge for 6 months.

For companies that have little or no experience with the collaboration tool, COSMO CONSULT has created a webinar series with content tailored to the current situation. For example, a webinar  will be held on 26 March to show participants how to set up and organize digital teams quickly and easily. The media library with all webinars on Microsoft teams and digital collaboration can be found directly on the company's homepage. In addition to this, the training platform COSMO COLLEGE provides a good introduction to the topic in a two-hour online workshop , which will take place on April 2nd and April 9th, for example. Users can find targeted exercises to build on what they have already learned.