It’s also much easier to maintain Chromebooks compared to other operating systems. Chromebooks logins are easy-employees use their Google logins even to authenticate on Citrix or VPN. We talked about the policies we’d set, added them to the Admin console, and that was it-we haven’t needed to change them since. Our Workplace Technology Team managed the first batch of Chromebooks by enrolling them in Chrome Enterprise Upgrade, with help from Cloudwürdig, our Google partner. There are fewer settings for people to worry about on Chromebooks, which means there are fewer ways for people to make mistakes. A Chromebook gets me through a full 10-hour day of meetings with other devices, I’d have to plug them in during lunch. The battery life is much longer compared to other notebooks. By 2022, we expect to have more than 3,000 Chromebooks company-wide.Įmployees tell us that Chromebooks are easier to use. About 800 HP Chromebooks have been rolled out to employees in Germany, and another 200 in several other countries. Chromebooks are the device that helps us spread this strategy throughout the company. If employees didn’t need to be tied to software and networks to do their jobs, we had a chance to slim down hardware budgets, reduce IT administration, and free workers from their desks. But over time, more and more of the applications we used daily had moved to the browser-in some cases, through Citrix, such as our SAP client. By reducing our dependence on thin clients and rolling out Chromebooks, people can work from any desk or office, as well as from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.Īs we evolved to working in Google Workspace, we realized that our thin-client environment was holding us back from collaborating and communicating in a new way with our colleagues. Last year, we started to replace old hardware with HP Chromebooks. We saw an opportunity to move ahead and give employees more flexibility in where and how they worked. From our company headquarters in Allendorf, Germany, and in 74 other countries, our 12,300 employees were using Google Workspace and Chrome Browser from every device. Following its adoption of Google Workspace and Chrome Browser in 2017, Viessmann added Chromebooks last year, aiming to roll out 3,000 Chrome devices by 2022.īy 2019, our company was already well on the road to working in the cloud as much as possible. Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Alexander Pöllmann, Head of Workplace Technology at Viessmann, a Germany-based manufacturing company providing climate solutions.
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