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Working From Home Vs. Working in An Office-The Debate Continues

Remote work has been around for decades, but it has become more prominent with the growth of tech, particularly garage startups working on tight budgets. Remote work can be traced back to 1973, when Jack Niles, a NASA engineer, first coined the term “telecommuting.”

The pandemic certainly played a critical role in accelerating a shift to remote work. It was more or less a reactive step to reduce the spread of the deadly virus. However, in the post-pandemic era, employers have had to reimagine the traditional roles of office work and got accustomed to working from home (WFH).

Nevertheless, it is interesting to know that a significant portion of the workforce loves working from home; some fancy a hybrid model while others still prefer the traditional working in an office setup.

So, which work model is the best? To answer this, let’s dig deeper into the in-depth comparison of working from home and working from the office:

Why would people continue to work from home?

One survey of 2100 done by FlexJobs found that 58% of respondents said they would love to continue working from home post-pandemic. You might be wondering- why?. Here are some of the factors that are making WFH much more attractive around the globe:

Pros of working from home

More time to complete tasks

Working from the office means you will lose a chunk of your time commuting, especially if you have to take public transport. Once you start working from home, you realize you have more time to work on assignments and tasks since you are not commuting. A survey study done by Upwork at the peak of the pandemic found that those working remotely saved an average of 49.6 minutes a day on commute time. This also has a positive impact on your wallet and budget as you will save on fuel and maintenance costs.

Source: Upwork

Increased flexibility

The beauty of WFH is that you can always work from your couch or bean bag on the floor if you don’t feel like sitting at your desk! Sometimes, you can also choose to work in the wee hours of the night if you don’t fancy waking up early in the morning (of course, if your company allows it). Furthermore, you can seek assistance from unattended remote computer access when working on a team project. It will allow you to play your part in the team project without having to meet in person and work on the project’s progress.

Less stress

Your work environment could add to the stress of the job, making you feel exhausted and overwhelmed. In some cases, your boss might also limit how much you can personalize your workstation, causing you to feel detached. On the other hand, you tend to be less stressed when you work from home because you are in a familiar and personal space you can customize. It makes you feel at ease, thus enhancing your productivity.

More alone time

There is hardly any alone time when you are in the office setup. Your boss might summon you to the office, or your co-workers might just chip in and have a chat just as you had planned to take a lunch break. However, working from home means you can take something like a short nap between intervals or catch up with your favorite TV series as you unwind during breaks.

Cons of working from home

Struggle for structure

Remote work might mean that you have to set your own routine and schedule. Therefore, you might struggle to work from home if you are used to a strict commute and office routine. You might also be challenged to ace productivity levels if you are constantly dealing with frequent distractions from your family.

Note: According to one study done by UConn, female employees are particularly affected by non-work disruptions when they work from home compared to their male colleagues.

Technology challenges

Depending on your employer, you might also not have access to every piece of technology that would make your work easier compared to when you work from an office. Your internet at home might experience frequent glitches, leading to delays in your tasks. Of course, glitches do happen in office setups, too but troubleshooting them at home tends to be harder.

Limited social interactions

Apart from phone calls and social media, there is often little social interaction when you work from home. In fact, you might find it hard to cope with remote work if you are a social butterfly and constantly crave connection with other people. You will have to grapple with issues like zoom fatigue.

Why are people willing to return to work?

Unfortunately, working from home is not for everyone. Some people would much rather escape the confines of their homes and do their work in the office. Mind you; there are some benefits of working from a structured office:

Pros of working in the office

More opportunities for growth and learning

First and foremost, the office is an excellent place to get a mentor. Working in the office also helps you learn how to relate to people from different backgrounds. You will automatically know how to behave accordingly in a professional setting.

Improved time management

If you prefer working hours that are set in stone, the fixed structure in the office will give you a feeling of stability. You will also learn how to manage your time better working with others within your vicinity.

Creation of relationships

Unlike working from home, being in the office allows you to interact with others and make acquaintances. Even though you won’t manage to connect with everyone, there is likely someone who will become a close friend outside work.

Cons of working in the office

There are also common challenges with working in an office. Here are some of the challenges with the traditional office workplace setting:

Commuting

The most obvious disadvantage of working from the office is the commute. Again, you are likely to save more money and time if you have the chance to work from home rather than spend on fuel and transport.

Sedentary lifestyle

Another well-known disadvantage of working in the office is that it encourages a sedentary lifestyle. Sitting at your office desk for many hours is unsuitable for your neck, back, mind and mood. Thereby, you may experience health concerns- both physical and mental.

Still not sure which is the better choice?

Even after analyzing the pros and cons of working remotely or commuting to the office, you might still be unsure about where you stand. Perhaps you have been working from the office for so long that you wouldn’t know whether remote work will work for you. You might also be apprehensive about returning to work when you are used to working from home. Here are a few tips to help you pick the better choice:

1. Choose a place where you feel more engaged

Some studies have shown that employees feel more engaged when the organization lets them work off-site three to four days a week. If you fancy working in an office, then you could use it on working days. If you prefer to work remotely, you could find an arrangement where you work only from an office when necessary.

2. Choose a place where you positively impact the environment

If you care about the environment, you should know that the vehicles we use to commute to work emit many greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Buying food from cafeterias also increases the use and disposal of plastic cups, plates, and containers. In other words, choosing to work from home reduces the negative impact of air pollution and the burning of fossil fuels. You could also strive to be more environmentally friendly if you choose to work from the office. Consider carpooling, taking public transport, or switching to an Electric Vehicle(EV).

3. Choose the space that helps you feel more productive

Remember, productivity is key to any workplace. So, designate a specific workspace free from noise and distraction if you are more effective at home. You could also create a structure that closely resembles working hours.

Most times, you really don’t have a choice.

Unfortunately, not everyone has a choice regarding office or remote work. For instance, casual workers in the production line don’t have the luxury of working from home. Lab technicians and medical professionals are excellent examples of professionals who have to report daily to work. On the other hand, you might be forced to work from home to reduce the spread of Covid-19, even though you prefer working in the office. Since you cannot do much to change your current situation, it is best to make the most out of it.

The debate continues!

We can all admit that the traditional workplace model has experienced a paradigm shift as remote work takes center stage. There is a heated debate about what the future of work might look like. Many businesses are still trying to determine whether to go for WFH, a hybrid model, or the traditional working in an office. We even saw the employees of Apple and AT&T petitioning to make the work-from-home policies permanent.

In a nutshell, the debate still goes on, but one thing is certain, the workplace as we know it will keep changing in the coming years!

LogMeIn alternative 2022, is LogMeIn still the gold standard?

RemoteToPC vs LogMeIn 2022, why we’re the best Logmein Alternative 2022:

Along with TeamViewer, LogMeIn is one of the original remote digital workspace solutions. The company went public on NASDAQ in 2009 and simultaneously discouraged any competition and built a huge user base among IT consultants and remote workers by initially offering their product for free. However, freemium had its end, and in January of 2014 LogMeIn abruptly converted its freemium based product to a paid model that, both angered much of the userbase and opened the door for LogMeIn alternatives like RemoteToPC.

Without a competitive LogMeIn replacement, many of its freemium customers bit the bullet and paid the sudden fee to keep access to their remote systems going. However, no one could have predicted the meteoric rise in the cost of LogMeIn in the next few years. Every couple of years they seemed to raise prices again until finally in 2021 they eventually would blow out all expectations for the cost of remote access software.

What once was free, by 2019 cost $1688 per year for a base plan to access 100 remote computers. Many of its advanced features had been pulled out into 3 different levels of service to add on to the base plan each costing from an additional $1080 to $1236 per year. Though it was a more advanced offering than the freemium product of 2013, within 6 years, a public company beholden to increase profits for stock investors would cost up to $5220 for 100 remote systems to include all the bells and whistles. In 2020 LogMeIn suddenly delisted from the stock exchange, converting back again to a private company, and since then, it’s been lowering prices to try and keep or gain back some of the formerly loyal customers that had been pushed too far with its seemingly never-ending price increases.

Today in addition to RemoteToPC there are many cheaper alternatives to LogMeIn, but none of them are quiet as much like LogMeIn Central Basic as RemoteToPC. When LogMeIn started charging, that was day 1 for RemoteToPC in our minds, and we haven’t stopped working to improve and advance it, to better security than LogMeIn, becoming faster, and offering more base features for less has been our goal from the inception of RemoteToPC.

Best LogMeIn alterntive 2022?:

Perhaps sensing the ride had ended, and with customers straining under the price, and many of them finding RemoteToPC as one of the best LogMeIn alternatives, in 2020 they suddenly delisted from the stock exchange, and started dropping their prices. As of the writing of this article 100 seats of LogMeIn Central basic was dropped from $1688 per year to $1440 per year, and with a 15% off Christmas Special running they appear to be keen to win customers back. The 3 feature sets have also dropped from $1236 down to $1080 for Security and Automation and from $1080 to $948 for Insight. Have they not however proven that they are only out to get whatever they can from the customer, with no real thought for the impact on their customers business?

At RemoteToPC, we have not raised our prices from day 1. This is not to say that we will never raise prices, but for $299 per year our customers get 100 seats of RemoteToPC, which even has some of the reporting, and monitoring features of the LogMeIn add-ons included.

While they have not added any new features in 2021, RemoteToPC has been busy, adding chat, and drag and drop file copy among other things. We’ve also got better TLS V1.2 / AES-256 encryption, and in addition to two-factor authentication, the ability to stack the RemoteToPC login password with Windows login password providing better security than LogMeIn. For customers that need access to just a few computers, we offer RemoteToPC basic, which includes unlimited access to up to 10 remote computers for $99 per year, which compared to LogMeIn PRO at $1524 which is over 15X more expensive, they’ve still got a long way to come back down to earth in order to offer a competitively priced remote digital workspace product.

Of course, we’re biased, but why would you choose them over RemoteToPC? We’re a Texas founded and based company that cares about our customers, and their businesses. We’re not going to overcharge you, or deny you a refund if you’re a day late to cancel something. Though we like to think that we are one of the worlds most advanced products of its kind, we still have old fashioned values such as integrity. We believe they made a crass money grab, and took advantage of little IT companies and others who had no alternative, but now you have a choice, and you should stick with a company that is going to be steady, reliable, and that you won’t wake up one morning and find that we’ve changed our prices 5X.

So, the question remains, is LogMeIn still the gold standard for the digital workspace? Perhaps if you can afford a digital workspace made of gold, but we suggest you try and stick with RemoteToPC. We’d be happy to be considered the silver standard, but only costing you pennies comparatively.

From a LogMeIn Alternative to remote access software for everyone

Why we evolved from an alternative for LogMeIn to remote software for everyone – Taking Stock in 2020

RemoteToPC started out mainly as an affordable LogMeIn alternative. Coming from the IT industry we were looking to create an affordable alternative for LogMeIn and to the ever-increasing cost of remote computer access software. We found ourselves in the middle of a lot of well-funded competition and we had to work hard to carve out a name for ourselves. One thing we did to try and stand out was to offer other built-in features such as monitoring and alerts (Sort of like LogMeIn Central had) with every installation. As far as we know we were the first entry level remote access company to do that, so in that sense we had an impact on the industry, being the first to move in that direction with Remote Access for IT. We stuck with our “Made by IT for IT” tag-line and focus up until earlier this year. Now we just want to be go-to remote access software for everyone.

RemoteToPC has always had some customers outside of the IT world. Mom and pop businesses, insurance companies, local governments, non-profits, churches, law-firms, just about everyone who does work on computers also appreciated our affordable and reliable remote access solution. But we also maintained our focus on IT, partly because that’s what made us different, but also because that’s what we knew, and that’s the industry sector that we wanted to help. So we sort of had a mission to help companies that were like us have affordable reliable remote access.

We started to re-evaluate that focus and direction in late 2019 and with the pandemic of 2020 it became clear to us that we had a much broader audience that needed RemoteToPC. In March and April, we were inundated with new signups from a broad range of customers, particularly by business people who needed to get to their work computers from home. They needed to stay connected with work, and they needed a safe, easy and affordable way to do it. Even IT customers were asking for more features geared towards providing office workers remote logins to their work computers.

As things went forward it became clear to us that as the types of users that relied on RemoteToPC broadened we needed to also broaden the product offering of RemoteToPC to be a “An Affordable Remote Access Solution for Everyone”. That’s more than just a new tag-line, it comes with new features such as remote-printing, access from any device and dual-monitor remote access. Actually, it’s not just limited to two monitors. Users can now pop-out their remote screens inside of the RemoteToPC viewer application and place them in whatever local monitor they want. It makes it hard to tell you’re not right in front of the remote computer. So, the goal has been to try and get out of the way of the user experience, working towards remote seamless integration.

In addition to those kinds of general-office user features, we also added the ability to remote into Mac computers. We’ve broadened our viewer to be universal, so now users can connect to a PC or Mac host computer from any device, smart-phones, tablets, Linux systems and of course other PCs and Macs.

One thing we’re really proud of is that unlike other remote access software providers we added all these features without raising our prices. It’s inspiring to us when we regularly get feedback from our customers telling us how much they appreciate RemoteToPC, love our customer service, and appreciate our new features. This is a big reason why we do what we do. We believe that people are more important than things. We’re still located in Fort Worth Texas; we still block hostile countries IPs and still strive to offer excellent customer service.

During the pandemic authorities pretty much told us what was essential, by pointing out “essential jobs”. Well, we think your job is essential, and we’re here to offer you and the world a fast, safe, and easy to use and affordable remote access solution. Our philosophy on this is that we think being able to work remotely on whatever you do to get your job done is essential. That’s what motivates us. That’s why we’re here, for people to use our remote access software to connect and use PCs and Macs remotely from any device. We work hard on making sure that when you need to connect, it works, every single time 24/7/365, it works, and works well. That’s always been our focus from day one. To make sure the core functions of RemoteToPC, the remote connection itself worked reliably for our customers.

That’s what we think the new-normal is about, people and connections, and that ultimately, people are more important than things. That’s how we view our customers.

LogMeIn Price Increase and Alternative Cost Comparison 2019

LogMeIn Central pricing has changed from its long-held pricing three tier structure of LogMeIn Basic, LogMeIn Plus, and LogMeIn Premier to a single base product which is roughly twice the price of its former Basic level of service. It’s no wonder many are scrambling to find a LogMeIn alternative.

Formerly 100 LogMeIn Central Basic computers annual subscription cost was $899.99/yr. Currently for 100 computers under their “Base Plan” the subscription cost is $1668.00/yr. Nearly double the former LogMeIn pricing.

Now instead of 3 different levels of service, there is just one “Base” plan, and then there are three add-on feature sets named: Security, Automation, and Insight. Each add-on includes different features that used to be bundled in the previous 3 tiers of service:

The Security add-on includes features like: Patch management, Windows Updates, Antivirus Management.
The Automation add-on includes their One2Many Task Management, PowerShell Scripting, and Automated Actions.
The Insight add-on includes things like Asset Inventory, Custom Reporting, and Critical System Alerts.

Each LogMeIn add-on comes with added cost.

For a 100-computer base plan, the Security add-on would add an additional $1236/yr. The Automation add-on would also be an additional $1236/yr., and the Insight add-on would add an additional $1080/yr. So, if you needed some of the features in each of these different add-ons for your hypothetical 100 computer situation, the annual subscription cost to you for those 100 computers would be: $5220/yr. This is a significant increase over the previous pricing structure, where for those same 100 computers you would have paid: $899.99/yr. (Central Basic), $1999.99/yr. (Central Plus) or $3499.99/yr. (Central Premier).

It’s just another LogMeIn price increase.

However you look at it, this is a massive price increase for LogMeIn Central users. If you chose to only have the base Central plan for 100 computers, the price increases this year is 85% more. If you choose all the add-on options the price increase for you over Central Premier is an additional 49%.

RemoteToPC is a great LogMeIn alternative.

Of course, if you chose to LogMeOut of LogMeIn, and go with RemoteToPC, depending on how you look at it, you would be paying 82% to 94% less for our 100 computer plan, which is only $299/yr. We haven’t changed our prices since 2015, and RemoteToPC comes with some of the features that LogMeIn only includes in their add-ons like Monitoring and Alerts.

The pricing of LogMeIn Pro only increased very slightly, so this latest price increase is essentially a blow to a typical IT management user of LogMeIn Central. Managed Service Providers, IT consultants, and in-house IT staff will need to consider if continuing on with LogMeIn is worth the increase, or if a LogMeIn central alternative like RemoteToPC is worth switching to. If not now, then how much of a price increase will finally be enough to move on?

All RemoteToPC plans come with a free 14-day trial, and you can cancel yourself at any time during that trial period for any reason. Our plan sizes start at $99/yr. for 10 remote computers, and go up to 10,000 remote systems or more. While RemoteToPC supports remote access to any type of customer, we specialize in remote access for IT support, which is why we say: RemoteToPC is made by IT people for IT people.

LogMeIn alternative 2018 – Logmein Pro price increase

LogMeIn Pro price increase 2018

If your looking for a LogMeIn Pro alternative, you’ve come to the right place! Many IT people who use their Central product come to RemoteToPC looking for a LogMeIn alternative, but many small business users of LogMeIn Pro are also starting to discover us as a much more affordable remote PC access alternative. If you need unattended remote computer access for remote support, or if you just need because you need remote access into your computer at work, RemoteToPC will do the job, for much less than the LogMeIn cost.

The LogMeIn Pro pricing increase :

Following their widely publicized purchase of GoToMyPC last year, we were on the lookout for LogMeIn to raise their Central pricing this year like they did last January. We were hearing new customers complain about the cost of LogMeIn going up back in December, but kept checking in and seeing that their Central pricing was not changing. We thought they had decided to not raise prices. We were wrong.

Some internet searching again this week brought up a short post that Splashtop had made. It turns out that they were not going to increase price of the LogMeIn Central product this January, but instead they had a LogMeIn Pro price increase. According to their research into LogMeIn pricing history, this January was a 40% increase over last year. From $249.00 in 2017 to $349.99 starting in 2018. For accessing just a few computer systems, this no doubt seems an onerous jump in price to many corporate and small business users.

Since RemoteToPC is made by IT people for IT people, most of our former LogMeIn customer base who decided to “LogMeOut”, comes from the LogMeIn Central product standpoint. However, we do attract a fair share of accounting firms, and other small businesses that just need remote access to PCs at a reasonable price point. For those small businesses that use PC’s we believe that RemoteToPC is an excellent and much more affordable LogMeIn alternative.

LogMeIn cost vs RemoteToPC :

RemoteToPC offers our Basic remote desktop solution to up to 10 remote PCs for $99 per year. We don’t anticipate that pricing changing anytime soon. While this is enough for most small businesses, we also offer 20 remote PC computer plans for small business. Our Enterprise level plans start at 100 endpoints per year. Enterprise plans come with additional features such as user management. User management allows you to assign which users can access which computers.

As we’ve mentioned previously, LogMeIn began its rapid ascent into its current pricing levels back in January of 2014. That’s when they first started charging for their formerly free product. They added another increase in Jan 2015, skipped Jan 2016, and added another in Jan 2017. So, it seems obvious why everyone starts looking in January, because that’s the big month for upping their prices. Last year they bought fellow remote access product GoToMyPC (Go To My PC) for 1.8 Billion. This is sure to place them at over 1 Billion in annual revenue making them the 800lb gorilla in the industry. The move seems to have had the desired effect with their stock prices continuing to go up.

Those who’ve sought a LogMeIn alternative :

With those who jump off the LogMeIn ship, there are a number of products like Splashtop, or TeamViewer. We’d like to think that as far as more of a LogMeIn Central alternative, we have them all beat. RemoteToPC’s Command Center offers a clear view to IT people of all of the remote systems that they’re responsible for. System metrics give them alerts to troubled systems, and the way rows are laid out, access is quick and simple. The system metric monitoring that RemoteToPC does makes it more like the LogMeIn premium product. Splashtop and Teamviewer cost in the same range and yet don’t offer that kind of monitoring and alerts built into them.

We’ve recently added Android support, along with Remote Reboot, Wake-on-Lan, and 2-factor authentication. When combined with other native features such as monitoring and alerts, file transfer and user management, RemoteToPC has a lot of premium features for a fraction of the cost of those larger competitors. Starting with the RemoteToPC Enterprise 1 plan multiple user accounts can be setup with specific access to specific computer systems. We don’t limit the number of sessions, so as many people as need to be can be logged in using RemoteToPC simultaneously.

We believe that small businesses that are looking for a LogMeIn pro alternative should look at us. IT businesses, in-house IT staff, and MSPs should also look at us as a potential LogMeIn central replacement. We’re committed to high quality product support, and customers service, as well as adding new features, and continually improving old ones. Mac support, faster remote sessions, and remote printing should be coming later in 2018, along with more system information greater control over alerting, and remote remediation options.

We want to provide you with the best product we can at an affordable price. We know what IT people need, because RemoteToPC is built buy IT people for IT people.

LogMeIn alternative 2017 – LogMeIn raises prices again

LogMeIn Price increase. Why RemoteToPC is the right LogMeIn alternative for 2017:

Many people in the IT community have been waiting for this. Even some LogMeIn competitors didn’t believe they would do it again, yet they did. Yet again in January of 2017 they raised LogMeIn Central prices. This makes RemoteToPC an even more attractive LogMeIn alternative in 2017, as our pricing is considerably less than those for LogMeIn Central, or Pro.

An example of LogMeIn price increases using a 100 computer plan:

For example: LMI Central 100 computer Basic was $699, now it’s $899 Plus was $1499, now it’s $1999. Premier was $2999, and now its $3499

We thought LogMeIn pricing was too high back in 2015-16. This new level in 2017 is may help drive up their stock value for their shareholders, and help pay off their $1.8B acquisition of GoToMyPC from Citrix. It seems clear however that small computer consulting companies, and MSPs are the ones taking the hit for all that. With their purchase of GoToMyPC, they will be grossing over $1B per year, making them the 800 pound gorilla in the room compared to all of the other remote access solutions out there.

RemoteToPC vs LogMeIn from a price standpoint is a hands down win for RemoteToPC. RemoteToPC pricing for the 100 computer plan is currently $299. While we don’t offer every feature that LMI does, as of this publication we do provide:

Unattended Remote Desktop Access , Computer Health Monitoring , a Private Command Center , File Transfer Capability , Multi-Monitor Capable , Multiple Simultaneous Sessions , Critical System Alerts . Deployment Links you can Email , Wake-on-LAN, Multi-System Deployment Capability , Computer Grouping & Search , Remote Reboot , Safe-mode Reboot , a System Heartbeat Monitor , a Local Desktop Application , and User Management (Enterprise only)

RemoteToPC pricing is extremely competitive even when compared to the LogMeIn Central Basic plan, however some of the RemoteToPC features are only found in the even more expensive LogMeIn central Plus and Premier plan. For example the ability to copy files is only available starting in their Plus plan. Features like Monitoring and Alerts are found in their Premier plan. People who have a LogMeIn-Pro subscription for small numbers of computers will find the pricing of our smallest plan at $99 will cover them for up to 10 remote systems for a year.

While LogMeIn stock is near an all-time high, it is unclear where they intend that these increases in price will stop. The addition of the GoToMyPC remote access customer base is sure to keep the annual gross earnings over 1 billion, and they may have factored in the loss of some LMI customers, who move on to LogMeIn alternatives due to this increase. They could potentially show a huge gain for shareholders this year even with the loss of 20-25% of their LMI business. While it might not make much sense from the standpoint of keeping their remote access customer base happy, it makes sense that their shareholders would be extremely happy in that situation.

From their annual revenue growth in profits since they started raising prices back in January of 2014, raising the LogMeIn price has been nothing but rewarding to them. As long as they are continually rewarded for it, it is likely that they will continue to do so. It seems however that at some point they will reach the tipping point where those who buy a LogMeIn-Pro, or LogMeIn Central subscription will simply say “no more”. Many have already done so, and we expect more to do so as time goes on. RemoteToPC plans on being here to provide a more affordable alternative with an ever increasing feature set.

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LogMeIn Central Alternative | LogMeIn Vs RemoteToPC

Is RemoteToPC a good LogMeIn Central alternative ?

All over the internet, you can see articles geared at people looking for alternatives to LogMeIn Central, and their suggestions are always the same old products like Teamviewer, Bomgar, ScreenConnect, Splashtop, etc… If an IT person is just looking for a remote connection client with competitive pricing, then those are valid alternatives, and some may claim that they are better than logmein, but none of them are a true LogMeIn Central alternative. Here’s why: Because central comes in 3 different tiers of service with varying levels of features: Central Basic, Plus and Premier. The Basic plan only offers a more basic set of features with an online Command Center. You have to select the Plus version (for more money) if you want the ability to copy files between PCs, and finally if you want any kind of Monitoring and Alerts, you must purchase Central Premier (for a lot more money!)

As IT people ourselves, and from some of the feedback we have had from customers, the ability to copy a file from one computer to another can be a critical need. For LogMeIn, they charge twice the money for this feature. When they first implemented their new pricing, it was file copying, and multi-monitor access that they used to force users up to their Plus plan. This was apparently too much for too many Basic plan customers, and they soon offered the multi-monitor feature back in their Basic plan, while leaving the ability to remotely copy a file in their Plus plan. LogMeIn’s Premier plan has robust monitoring and alerts for proactive monitoring of computer systems, but at more than 4 times the cost of their basic plan.

At the time this is being written, LogMein Central Pricing for 100 computers is: $699 a year for Basic, $1499 a year for Plus, and $2999 a year for Premier.

We built RemoteToPC as a low cost alternative that has many of the same Central features, but have deliberately modeled our pricing to beat out their lowest price, while also offering key features that they feature in their higher level plans. RemoteToPC has a Command Center and Remote Desktop Access similar to LogMeIn Basic, File Copy similar to LogMeIn Plus, and we even offer basic Alerts and Monitoring similar to LogMeIn Premier. All currently at $299 a year for a 100 system plan.

All of our Enterprise level plans include these features that Central plans do: Remote Access, User Management, Computer Grouping, Deployment, Computer Search, Online/Offline Status, 256-Bit SSL Encryption, Multi-Monitor Support, File Transfer, Alerts and Monitoring, Mobile Access to Alerts, Wake-On-Lan, Local Client Application, Remote Reboot, Safe-mode Reboot, and Premium Customer Support.

For the features we offer, we don’t think anyone can touch our pricing. We think that RemoteToPC is a new kind of product. One designed to give you the best experience by merging the core features of advanced RMM tools with a basic remote access client, and that’s priced at a very low cost. We don’t think the cost of IT tools should be punitive. We know what IT people want, and need, because RemoteToPC is built by IT people for IT people!

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