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Employee wellbeing is now more important than ever; but taking care of people working remotely goes far beyond a phone call every now and then to find out how they're feeling.
COVID-19 has changed the way we are working, and this is reflected in the type of products we've seen leaving the Fellowes Brands' warehouses in truck loads over the last few months.
As we now enter the next stage of the 'return to work', the vast majority of these high-demand products continue to attract high volume of orders on a weekly basis.
To work productively from home, leading businesses understand how important it is to ensure their employees are well-connected, highly motivated and working healthily.
Not surprisingly, the most popular lines are laptop risers, document holders, free-standing monitor arms and sit-stand desk converters that transform sedentary worktops into dynamic workstations for more active working.
As more employees work remotely, businesses must still remain compliant with GDPR. Employees accessing sensitive data at home may be at risk of breaking rules, especially where paper data is involved.
A shredder is the essential tool for destroying confidential paperwork, and the machines offering high security micro-cut shredding capabilities are the most effective. With the surge in homeworking, there's been an increase in demand of personal shredders that are specially designed for home and small office use. The Fellowes models featuring the patented SafeSense® technology which stop shredding when hands or paws get too close are particularly well suited to environments where children and pets are jumping around.
As well as being able to quickly and securely destroy obsolete paperwork, there is also the need to ensure important documents are kept safe and organised - and are easy to access when required. This is especially important with so many employees working between the home and office.
Archiving solutions such as corrugated storage boxes, transfer files and plastic storage containers have really grown in popularity over the last few months as homeworkers look to rearrange their home spaces to accommodate their workspace requirements. By utilising Bankers Box? magazine files, desktop drawers and storage boxes, employees will be able to organise documents in a structured way.
Fellowes Brands only launched its new range of ProStoreTM plastic storage boxes in January of this year, and already the range is proving to be one of the biggest success stories of 2020 - delivering demand and sales performances that have far exceeded expectations.These success stories are really encouraging for an industry that has been forced to change and remodel itself to meet the needs of evolving workstyles and transforming businesses.
Yet, there is still one product range in the Fellowes portfolio that has eclipsed the lot and is presenting resellers with a superb opportunity to serve new customers in new channels.
As businesses look to compliment clean surfaces and clean hands with clean air to provide the healthiest possible environment, we've seen a 700% increase in our range of AeraMax? commercial grade air purifiers. This level of interest continues to grow on a daily basis with colder months rapidly approaching and the threat of a second wave of the pandemic constantly in the news. Cleaning the air we share becomes a necessity for businesses who need to keep their doors open to staff and customers.