LogMeIn Extends Availability of Emergency Remote Work Kits Until End of June for Schools, Health Care Providers, Municipaliti...
April 06 2020 - 9:00AM
LogMeIn, Inc. (Nasdaq:LOGM) today announced that it will extend the
availability of its previously announced offer of free Emergency
Remote Work Kits until the end of June for critical service
organizations, including schools, health care providers,
municipalities, and non-profits. The kits, which include
complimentary software for video conferencing, virtual events,
remote access to devices and applications, as well as remote IT
support, feature products like GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToMyPC,
LogMeIn Pro and RescueAssist. These kits were first introduced in
response to the sudden need for businesses, organizations and
entire communities to shelter-in-place and adopt widespread remote
working, education and service. Since LogMeIn began offering these
in early March, thousands of the kits have been deployed across the
globe, including school districts, major cities and towns, key
hospitals and large and small non-profits.
“As businesses and communities adjust to this new norm of work,
many never expected to be fully-remote and were ill-prepared for
such a scenario. From the start, our employees and teams have
been looking for ways to help where they can, and getting our
remote work tools into the hands of those that needed them most was
an obvious way to assist our communities, especially those on the
front lines of this crisis,” said Bill Wagner, CEO of LogMeIn. “The
recipients have continued to be an inspiration to our team, and
we’re honored to play even a small part in their efforts to help
citizens, students, medical staff and the public, at large overcome
the disruption caused by COVID-19.”
In recent weeks, the remote work trend has reached extreme
acceleration levels, as organizations around the globe have gone
from seeing remote work as something that might be done
occasionally, if at all, to fully remote organizations by
necessity. While LogMeIn has long supported remote work and has
seen an increase in adoption of remote working in recent years, the
COVID-19 related shifts have caused a significant jump in usage of
the company’s offerings, not just in the now ubiquitous video
conferencing, but also in areas like remote access, remote IT
support and even cloud telephony.
Examples of this trend include:
Local and Regional Municipalities: These
include major US cities, communities in some of the hardest hit
areas including the States of California and Washington as well as
national associations of municipalities in Italy, Australia and
other domestic and international regions. These organizations are
using GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar along with other LogMeIn products
to stay connected to staff and their constituents to disseminate
critical information during this time of crisis.
Healthcare: Hospitals and healthcare facilities
around the globe are using GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar to keep
staff virtually connected with each other and patients in ways that
help coordinate actions and treatment without putting healthcare
providers and patients in additional unnecessary
risk.
Non-profit: Non-profit organizations from those
helping people hit especially hard during a time of isolation such
as those with mental or physical disabilities, to those that
connect business communities with offers of help and support have
turned to remote working tools to keep up a steady level of
business continuity that allows them to continue to help those that
need it most.“LogMeIn has been a terrific partner during our
Pandemic response efforts. Their GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and
RescueAssist tools have been invaluable to the Washington State
Department of Health as we respond to this Public Health emergency.
In addition to our regular subscriptions, we have taken advantage
of their Emergency Remote Work Kit and it has helped us to quickly
extend our reach with these tools,” said Callie Goldsby, Deputy
Chief Information Officer, Washington State Department of Health.
“Specifically GoToMeeting has allowed our teams to work remotely
and still be virtually face to face in order to meet and
collaborate to get their critical work done. GoToWebinar has
allowed us to conduct large meetings, presenting to hundreds of
local health officials to keep them apprised with the COVID-19
response. And finally, RescueAssist has been instrumental in aiding
our IT ServiceDesk to provide remote support to our agency
employees who need immediate assistance to get their software or
laptop working properly without having to be physically
present. Without these tools it would be extremely difficult
to operate in a remote way. We appreciate all of the support we
have received from our LogMeIn partners.”
LogMeIn announced the Emergency Remote Work Kit initiative in
early March as part of the company’s response to the COVID-19
pandemic with the goal of helping customers and critical service
providers accelerate efforts to keep their employees, students and
citizens safe by shifting to remote work. These free
Emergency Remote Work Kits include solutions for meetings and video
conferencing, webinars and virtual events, IT support and
management of remote employee devices and apps, remote access to
devices in multiple locations, and with the addition of
GoToConnect, a full UCC platform for K-12 schools. These kits will
be available at no cost for three months. Since announcing their
availability, LogMeIn has given away millions of dollars’ worth of
software as part of this initiative, totaling thousands of kits and
serving more than one million individual new users around the
Globe.
In addition to the Emergency Remote Work Kits, LogMeIn has also
started a resource center with tips and best practices on how to
master the shift to remote working for employees, managers and IT
teams. You can learn more by visiting our remote work resource
center.
For more information please visit
www.gotomeeting.com/work-remote
About LogMeIn, Inc. LogMeIn, Inc.
(NASDAQ: LOGM) simplifies how people connect with each other
and the world around them to drive meaningful interactions, deepen
relationships, and create better outcomes for individuals and
businesses. One of the world’s top 10 public SaaS companies, and a
market leader in unified communications and collaboration, identity
and access management, and customer engagement and support
solutions, LogMeIn has millions of customers spanning virtually
every country across the globe. LogMeIn is headquartered in Boston,
Massachusetts with additional locations in North America, South
America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Media Contact Jen Mathews
jennifer.mathews@logmein.com 617-279-2443
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