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The business world has been moving more and more toward a distributed workforce. And it makes sense. When a job can be done anywhere, business owners benefit from a much larger candidate pool and lower overhead costs. And employees can skip their morning commute and improve their work-life balance. But...

If you have a surveillance system in your workplace, you're automatically a step ahead of similar businesses regarding safety. But what type of camera system do you have? And how old is it? After all, technology constantly evolves, and upgrading your surveillance system might be necessary to maintain the effectiveness...

After telephones, sound and overhead paging were the second product installation line, RCI entered. In the 80s and 90s, it was a natural outgrowth of telephone systems because so many customers wanted to be able to use their telephone paging feature through overhead speakers. Today, in the era of cell...

Is it time to replace your phone system? We're four weeks into the new year. In previous January, we discussed the top tech trends of the previous year or decade or technology resolutions for the year to come. But with cyber security still in the news and the rise of...

In the last several years, the way people work has undergone the most significant shift we've seen in decades – maybe since the industrial revolution. And with any change comes pain points. Unfortunately, many of those pain points result from the friction of the tools we used to do things...

A few years ago, RCI put out a Thanksgiving blog. It's one of my personal favorites. That blog focused on the many things RCI employees and owners were thankful for that year. Today, we're going to combine that spirit with a little bit of the nature of the following day...

With Halloween here and mischief on the mind, it’s an excellent time to talk about a subject we haven’t brought up in a while, surveillance systems. These days, you can get a camera system from Sam’s Club, but that doesn’t mean it will give you the desired result. Sometimes with...

Last month, I shared the story of a trip RCI President & CEO John Whitcomb took to deliver a paging system part to a customer in Northern Virginia. Of course, that trip was all in the line of duty, but little did I know that this month, at the time...

Overhead paging was the next technology that RCI got into after telephone systems. It was a natural outgrowth. Many existing customers wanted to be able to page through their phones. Since then, we’ve gotten into several other IT services, including computers and surveillance systems. But, in the meantime, paging’s popularity...

You don't know what you don't know. It's an age-old problem. And nowhere is this more true than with Business IT solutions. As a business owner or manager, you have to be a jack of all trades, and you probably feel like you need to be an all-around expert. But...