If you’ve heard the term “fractional IT” and wondered what it actually means in practice — this post is for you. The Fractional Model “Fractional” refers to a model where a company engages an expert on a part-time, ongoing basis rather than hiring them full-time. You’ve probably heard of fractional CFOs — experienced finance executives …
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Remote work is the default for most growing SaaS companies. The benefits are real — access to global talent, reduced office costs, flexibility that attracts the best people. The security risks are also real. And most of them aren’t dramatic — they’re quiet, everyday habits that create exposure over time. Here are seven remote work …
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I’m going to tell you a story. The details have been changed to protect the company involved — but the sequence of events is real. A 45-person SaaS company. Good team, strong culture, growing fast. A developer resigned after three years — no bad blood, they were going to a larger company. The notice period …
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First impressions in a new job are made in the first 48 hours. The research on this is consistent: new employees decide very quickly whether they made the right choice. And while a lot of attention goes into the cultural and human elements of onboarding — the welcome, the team introductions, the first 1:1 — …
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Every company has a SaaS problem. Most don’t know the full extent of it. It starts innocuously. Someone signs up for a tool to solve a specific problem. Someone else does the same. A contractor brings their preferred platform. A new hire sets up the tool they used at their last company. The credit card …
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Most companies have an onboarding checklist. Someone thought carefully about first impressions, set up accounts, ordered a laptop, and made sure the new hire felt welcome on day one. Almost none of those same companies have an offboarding checklist. And that asymmetry is costing them — in ways that don’t show up on a spreadsheet …
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The first day experience for a remote employee is almost entirely an IT problem. There’s no office to walk into, no colleague to sit next to, no IT desk to visit. There’s a laptop, a set of instructions, and however well (or badly) the company has prepared for their arrival. When IT onboarding works, a …
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Google Workspace is well-designed and reasonably secure out of the box. The defaults are good enough that most teams set it up, move on, and never look at the admin console again. The problem is that ‘good enough out of the box’ is not the same as ‘configured for a remote team handling client data.’ …
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The term ‘fractional’ gets used a lot in startup circles — fractional CFO, fractional CMO, fractional CTO. The idea is simple: access senior-level expertise without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. The same model is increasingly being applied to IT operations, and for companies between 15 and 80 employees, it often makes more …
When a growing company decides it’s time to manage its devices properly, three names come up most often: Kandji, JumpCloud, and Microsoft Intune. Each one is a legitimate solution. Each one is also genuinely different — and picking the wrong one for your team’s situation means either paying for features you don’t need or missing …
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