PORTUGAL DOESN’T STOP – Hydra iT helps Portuguese SMEs in a solidarity initiative
Hydra iT joins solidarity project to help SMEs to work remotely with technological support
PORTUGAL DOESN’T STOP is a solidarity project that emerged with the objective of adding offers from a group of organizations that want to help Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the implementation of tools that facilitate teleworking.
Under this initiative, Hydra iT and other member organizations offer support to Portuguese SMEs in the activation and initial use of the Office 365 Plan E1 platform that Microsoft makes available free of charge for 6 months, so that their employees can work remotely, in a contribution effort to reduce the contagion chains of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Communication, collaboration and information are the three areas on which the transition from office work to a remote regime is based. This platform (https://www.portugalnaopara.pt/) aims to support organizations that are taking the first steps in working at home office. Companies find all the resources useful for the successful implementation of telework, from technical documentation, guides, usage methodology, modern workplace, among others, to understand how they can quickly adopt remote work using the appropriate tools and accessing support services for free provided by a partner ecosystem.
The idea of the solidarity project PORTUGAL DOESN’T STOP was born from a group of organizations: the digital agency Fullsix Portugal, Microsoft as a global manufacturer of platforms and a restricted group of Portuguese companies with skills in Smartworking - of which Hydra iT is part.
Since March 2020, Hydra iT has been implementing initiatives to support companies, in view of the urgent needs to adapt the working model of Portuguese companies to a remote work regime, as a preventive way to Coronavirus contagion (COVID-19). Examples are the Personal Teams campaign - offering Microsoft Teams configuration and free HOME PROTECTION for PC and Mac for all SOPHOS customers.
*Free Microsoft offer exclusively for companies that are not yet customers of the Office 365 platform:
- Organizations with less than 300 users: Microsoft 365 Business Basic - offering the first 6 months in a 12 month usage commitment. More info here.
- Organizations with more than 300 users: Office 365 plan E1: offering the first 6 months in a 12-month usage commitment. More info here.
Braga, April 23th, 2020