LogMeIn Offers Support To Our Communities And Customers During Coronavirus Disruptions
LogMeIn, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOGM), Since our
founding in 2003, LogMeIn has
created tools that allow people to work from anywhere. And the company believes
in the next few years, environmental, social and economic factors, along with
advancements in technologies such as 5G, will likely drive more and more
companies to embrace “the virtual workplace.”
Regrettably, the spread of Coronavirus
(COVID–19) continues to cause individuals and companies around the world to
question how best to conduct their business during this outbreak. These factors
have also put inevitable strain on critical service providers like local and
regional municipalities, hospitals, educational institutions and non-profit
organizations as they ready themselves to deal with further outbreaks and
disruptions.
This, in turn, is accelerating the pace
at which many organizations are being pushed to embrace remote work, despite
the fact that many of these organizations are not yet equipped to get the most
productivity out of their remote workforce. This accelerated pace towards
working remotely, coupled with underlying health concerns are creating pain for
LogMeIn clients, their employees, and our client’s customers, as well as the
communities in which we operate, as evidenced by:
· Management
considering whether to curtail or even eliminate travel
· Marketing teams
rethinking participation in events
· IT teams planning for
business continuity and remote worker support
· Schools and employers
are becoming more accommodating on employee and student illness
· Local/regional municipalities
and health care providers gearing up to maintain and even further ramp their
community support services
At LogMeIn, we’ve already seen many of
these trends play out in some of the hardest hit areas such as Asia and Italy ,
where usage of some of the company’s collaboration products has more than
doubled in recent weeks, and we’re starting to see significant spikes in
traffic in other regions of the world as Coronavirus awareness and concerns
grow.
Rahul Sharma, Managing Director, LogMeIn,
India says, “With the Coronavirus pandemic escalating in India, we hope
the Emergency Remote Work Kits can help our existing clients as well critical
service providers such as hospitals, schools and emergency services to maintain
their productivity. These kits include solutions for meetings and video
conferencing, webinars and virtual events, IT support and management of remote
employee devices and apps, as well as remote access to devices in multiple
locations.
We feel LogMeIn is in a unique position
to help our customers, their employees and our communities during this time. As
a result, we are making it a top priority to do all that we can to help them
focus on the health of their employees and their business.”
Free Emergency Remote Work
Kits for Health Care Providers, Educational Institutions, Municipalities &
Non-Profit Organizations:
Starting immediately, LogMeIn
will be offering our critical front-line service providers with free,
organization-wide use of many LogMeIn products for 3 months through the
availability of Emergency
Remote Work Kits. These kits will include solutions for meetings and
video conferencing, webinars and virtual events, IT support and management of
remote employee devices and apps, as well as remote access to devices in
multiple locations. For example, the “Meet” Emergency Remote Work Kit will
provide eligible organizations with a free site-wide license of GoToMeeting for
3 months. Eligible organizations include health care providers, educational
institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations.
Support for Customers:
It is important that our
customers understand that LogMeIn is here to support them and their employees
during this time. To further demonstrate this support, the company has also
decided to make these Emergency Remote Work Kits available to all existing
LogMeIn customers. We will allow current LogMeIn customers to expand their
agreements with us to include GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and other tools to cover
their entire employee population for up to three months at no additional cost
to their current subscription. LogMeIn will also be offering assistance with
deploying and training users who are new to remote working.
We have asked our leaders and
worldwide staff to play a part in helping to tackle the challenges presented by
the coronavirus head on. So, if you work for a health care provider,
educational institution, municipality or a non-profit organization, please know
that you can reach out to LogMeIn if you need assistance.
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