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Techmesh’s Tech bytes: Olympics 2012 – How to avoid the ‘the summer sickness season’

Techmesh’s Tech bytes: Olympics 2012 – How to avoid the ‘the summer sickness season’
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July 19 2011
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TECHMESH welcomes Digital Media Projects in the third edition of tech bytes, the monthly column specifically for IT & Telecoms leaders and professionals in Yorkshire and the Humber.

tech bytes features the region’s best in IT &Telecoms, providing readers with topical and relevant articles on the latest in technology and monthly bite size hints and tips, that ultimately help companies save money, improve efficiency and gain knowledge from a panel of experts.

Olympics 2012 – How to avoid the ‘the summer sickness season’

With the Olympic tickets now allocated, those who weren’t lucky enough to get the events of their choice will no doubt be hoping to catch the action on television. When big sporting events clash with the working day, evidence shows employers risk unauthorised absences and demotivating staff if they are not flexible.

There are a number of options available to businesses during what is often rather pessimistically termed the “summer sickness season”.

Encourage employees to book annual leave in advance of big events, offer unpaid time off or flexible working arrangements, or make your policy on unauthorised absences clear and take disciplinary action against those breaching the rules.

However, many companies do not realise there are cost-effective and easy ways to make these events available to view on employees’ desktops, laptops and even on televisions screens around the organisation. Staff can enjoy the buzz of the big sporting events at work, all the while helping to build team spirit and maintain a happy, motivated work force.

This is preferable to resentment about strict rules and missing the big occasion, a severely reduced workforce due to planned absences, or worst of all, unplanned absences.

This system, known as IPTV, allows not just live, but also delayed and on-demand content to be broadcast over an existing computer network. Even if you have not heard of IPTV, you will almost certainly have come across it. YouTube, BBC iPlayer on your PC or Love Film through a games console are just three of the myriad of IPTV services available today. 

More and more businesses are taking advantage of this technology, and use it for more than broadcasting sporting events.

There are an enormous number of effective ways to utilise a robust IPTV system:

– Create a company channel to keep staff informed about where the organisation is going and what it wants to achieve;
– On demand content, such as training videos, health and safety demonstrations and a media archive library;
– Video content for reception areas, to inform and entertain visitors, and reduce their perceived wait time;
– Out-of-hours scheduled recordings;
– Emergency messaging, which can be linked to the fire alarm;
– Digital signage, to educate, inform and entertain staff and visitors, as well as reduce the cost and environmental impact of paper signage.
 
This system can be set up so that all this content is available across the company network, regardless of location. 
 
When you consider that organisations with effective internal communications have a 19.4% higher market premium and deliver 57% higher shareholder return, according to a Watson Wyatt Worldwide Study, it is not hard to see why so many companies are looking into the possibilities offered by IPTV solutions.

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