As we know lots of businesses are fighting for survival right now and need all the help they can get, so we wanted to compile a list of all of the free resources and tools available to support a remote workforce that we recommend you take advantage of.

We can help you get these tools set up really quickly so you and your team can start reaping the rewards.

Microsoft office 365 (E1 License) FREE for 6 months. This includes the collaboration tool Teams which support employees working from home with file sharing, instant messaging and video calling.

Cisco are providing FREE 90-day licenses for businesses who are not Webex customers in their time of need and helping existing customers enable a much larger number of remote workers by temporarily expanding their usage at no additional cost.

FREE email encryption licences for 6 months for all businesses through ourselves, get in touch.

Adobe are making their web-based PDF services FREE until May 31st 2020. Giving businesses the ability to create and share documents during this global epidemic. Plus Adobe Creative Cloud users can benefit from two months access for free.

Google is offering FREE upgrades on their G Suite for business, providing certain enterprise features for free for the next few months. Businesses using G Suite now have access to advanced Hangouts Meet video conferencing capabilities that are usually only available in the Enterprise edition of G Suite. These extended capabilities will be free of charge until 1st July 2020.

DocuSign is offering a FREE 30 day trial of it’s electronic signature tool which adheres to the laws in UK Electronic Communication Act (UKEC).

If you’re looking for a video conference tool to manage up to 100 participants, sign up to Zoom, it’s completely free and you can have unlimited meetings of up to 40 minutes each.

Finally, to keep the kids occupied as you juggle with working from home, Audible on Amazon is offering free stories for kids of all ages to stream on any device.

We’ll keep this list updated as new remote working resources become available, so keep checking back.

As an Exeter based IT provider, we’re also offering all local businesses to the South West free of charge advice and support. We’re passionate about keeping this community going through this tough time and whatever we can do to help, we will.

To take advantage of any of the above, call us on 01392 207 194 or email us and we’ll be back in touch.