Latest News | 2 February 2021
Invictus partners up for permanent remote working surge
Invictus Communications has partnered with another firm to create a ‘one-stop-shop’ for firms looking to upgrade technology to allow staff to work from home permanently.
Jonny McPhee, managing director of Invictus, has teamed up with Mark Hollingworth, boss of Clover IT Contracts to create Invictus Technology.
Both men will run the company, which is based in Derby Road, Melbourne, alongside their existing businesses, combining Invictus Communications’ expertise in supplying internet-based telephone systems with Clover’s range of IT support services, including infrastructure, computer monitoring, cloud storage and disaster recovery.
Invictus also plans to launch a new energy supply service, which means that companies will be able to source or upgrade their telephone system, IT and gas and electricity supply by talking to just one business, rather than three.
Jonny, who set up Invictus Communications in 2015, described the partnership as the right move at the right time, following a year in which the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses to seek new ways of working and required millions of people to work from home.
Even though the vaccination roll-out should enable companies across the country to get back onto their feet, he believes it has changed the business world – and his own business – for good, with the percentage of employees permanently working from home expected to double in 2021.
He said: “The pandemic had a huge effect on everyone’s business, including our own, and it meant that we had to find a new way of working, which to us meant forming alliances with local companies who could pass on leads to us and vice-versa.
“I have known Mark for years, but after a few months of cooperating with each other we realised the long-term benefits of combining our products and services under the same roof as a friendly and local one-stop-shop.
“This is the right move at the right time because the move to remote working has created a huge need for secure, reliable and seamless phone and IT systems and people don’t want to waste time talking to separate companies when they can arrange everything through one supplier.”
