HP Work From Home bundles print and PCs together for the first time
New offering aims to make hybrid work a cinch for organizations
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In an effort to make things easier for businesses implementinghybrid workpolicies,HPhas announced that it will combine its printers, PCs and supplies in a new offering calledHPWork from Home.
With HP Work from Home, IT leaders will be able to securely deploy and manage the company’s PCs, printers and supplies to a distributed workforce. This way their employees can be just as productive whenworking from homeas they are at the office.
While hybrid work comes with a number of benefits due to its flexibility, there are also a lot of challenges that businesses implementing this new way of working will need to overcome. HP believes it can help organizations transition to hybrid work by ensuring their employees have all of the tools and supplies they need to do their jobs regardless of where they’re working from.
Global head and general manager of HP Inc’s personal systems services division, Sumeer Chandra provided further insight on the company’s new offering in apress release, saying:
“While there are a lot of benefits to hybrid work, there are also a lot of challenges. With this combined offering, CIOs and IT managers can easily procure, deploy, and manage PCs and printers, plus ink or toner, no matter where the workforce is located.”
HP Work from Home
The HP Work from Home service includesPCsandprintersdelivered to both the office and employees' homes, auto replenishment of ink and toner, remote diagnostics and next-business day support and hardware-enforced protection built into select devices for always-on security for its PCs and printers.
Additionally, HP plans to add cloud security management and secure print path capabilities to its new offering this winter to provide IT admins with increased visibility while simplifying the management of essential security settings for remote devices.
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HP Work from Home is available in the US now and the program is expected to launch in additional countries throughout 2021 and 2022.
After working with the TechRadar Pro team for the last several years, Anthony is now the security and networking editor at Tom’s Guide where he covers everything from data breaches and ransomware gangs to the best way to cover your whole home or business with Wi-Fi. When not writing, you can find him tinkering with PCs and game consoles, managing cables and upgrading his smart home.
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