{"id":7006,"date":"2018-11-16T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/datcomWP\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2018-11-16T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:01:00","slug":"you-may-be-surprised-what-you-are-missing-without-a-help-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/you-may-be-surprised-what-you-are-missing-without-a-help-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"You May Be Surprised What You Are Missing Without a Help Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses these days rely on technology in order to function properly, but what happens when this technology doesn\u2019t operate as intended? If your organization doesn\u2019t have a dedicated help desk on-premise, you\u2019re probably suffering from unnecessary downtime and technology troubles with no recourse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, not all businesses have the luxury of hiring in-house technicians to function as a help desk. In cases like these, outsourced solutions are viable alternatives, if they aren\u2019t outright better overall. Here are some of the best reasons why your organization should implement an outsourced help desk solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help Desk Support Minimizes Downtime<\/strong><br \/>\nYou may have heard the excuse, \u201cI would have done the work, but I didn\u2019t know how,\u201d or \u201cMy computer wasn\u2019t working properly.\u201d If you don\u2019t have anyone available to help your staff with their issues, chances are they are being ignored and piling up, resulting in a situation where your staff simply can\u2019t do their jobs&#8211;not because they don\u2019t want to, but because they literally can\u2019t. If you have someone your staff can reach out to for assistance with the technical side of their job, they\u2019ll be more likely to get assistance and improve their productivity. Most importantly, you\u2019re keeping downtime to a minimum, as it is a huge blow to your bottom line if left unchecked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help Desk Support Provides a Single Point of Contact<\/strong><br \/>\nEven more confusing for some employees is who to actually contact in the event they need help with their technology. Sometimes the organization will have several numbers compiled in a location for all to see, but this isn\u2019t helpful, as the employee might wind up having to reach out to several vendors just to resolve a basic issue. By using a help desk solution, there is only a single phone extension or email address to inform, making this kind of assistance much more accessible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help Desk Support Can Augment In-House Assistance<\/strong><br \/>\nLet\u2019s say that your internal IT department is responsible for helping your employees out with their technology troubles. This is fine and all, but chances are that they don\u2019t have enough time to implement new solutions, keep your hardware and software updated, monitor your network for inconsistencies, and manage all of your organization\u2019s devices, let alone take a call from Susan down the hall because she can\u2019t access her email. You can help your business\u2019 IT department out by taking this one responsibility off their shoulders and handing it to an outsourced, remote help desk.<\/p>\n<p>If your business finds itself falling short in terms of help desk support, look no further. COMPANYNAME can help your business get the support it needs to maintain operational efficiency. To learn more, reach out to us at PHONENUMBER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses these days rely on technology in order to function properly, but what happens when this technology doesn\u2019t operate as intended? If your organization doesn\u2019t have a dedicated help desk on-premise, you\u2019re probably suffering from unnecessary downtime and technology troubles with no recourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[333,62,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}