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Be Home For The Holidays With Auto Attendant

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Be Home For The Holidays With Auto Attendant

home-for-the-holidaysMaybe you’ve already checked-out for the holidays because you still haven’t gotten over your tryptophan stupor, or maybe you’re the one holding down the fort at the office until New Years Eve. Either way, you can’t deny the fact that a lot of offices turn into ghost towns around this time of year. So what are you doing at work, then? Did you know that you can be home for the holidays without missing out on work? It’s true! Plus, with an advanced telephone system like Dash it’s a lot easier than trying to get an additional few days of PTO from HR, too.

Don’t Abandon Ship, Just Keep Her in Port

Okay, that might be slightly off as a metaphor, but only because you’re actually taking the ship home with you. Hosted PBX telephone systems, or most familiarly know as VoIP, are cloud-based equivalents of the traditional copper-wired lined PBX systems of yesteryear. That means that they are portable and travel with you just like all of the cloud-based applications you already have on your smart phone. For companies that rely on a virtual phone system like Dash, working from home, the in-laws’, or from the road is all just as effective as being in the office. Plus, these mobility benefits are just the tip of the iceberg of VoIP because there are unique features that make business, especially during the holidays, much easier to get done.

Auto Attendant

Of all of the great features that make a modern hosted telephone system superior to an on-site PBX, the most important one for people looking to have a flexible schedule during the holidays is Auto Attendant. Auto Attendant is basically like having someone at the office to field and forward calls for the rest of the team. Furthermore, because all of the features in Dash are fully customizable, Auto Attendant can be used for anything from a simple greeting and call forwarding all the way to delineating an array of extensions and options for your callers. No matter how Auto Attendant is used, however, the fact is that it doesn’t require you or your teammates to be in the office for it to work. This frees up the schedules of everyone who wants to celebrate the season with their loved ones.

The fact that VoIP makes this possible for every occasion from Thanksgiving to Boxing Day might be one of the reasons that 70% of businesses are expected to transition to a hosted telephone system in the next two years . For those businesses that may need more of a reason, though, they can compare the benefits of a hosted PBX over an on-site PBX. Once you’ve decided to switch, join in the conversation with other mobile-friendly businesses by following us on Twitter or Facebook. In the meanwhile, enjoy the holidays and thanks for checking out our blog!

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