Crew and Worker Welfare
Keep your crew and workers safe, healthy and connected
Serving in remote locations for long intervals can leave staff members feeling isolated from their families, friends and even from current events and news. Today’s generation of workers expect to have access to broadband internet and telephony while away.
Offering a range of welfare services enhances your recruitment package and can improve staff retention. With Marlink’s welfare solutions, your employees can stay happy, healthy and connected in a controlled and optimised way that will not interrupt business communication.
Your benefits
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Keep your employees connected to the internet
Marlink's welfare solution includes Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), a cost-effective service simplifying the use of personal devices, onboard or on site. With existing or new WiFi hardware and controller, our plug & play solution provides optimal internet access everywhere.
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Manage crew and worker health efficiently
With Marlink's Telemed solution, remote patients can be examined by doctors, remote follow-up can take place and regular preventive screenings can be administered, with automatic, secure transmission of medical data.
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Connect your employees to news & infotainment
Our media solution brings employees together in their social time in a communal environment that further fosters teamwork and morale. Every day, we deliver international news, reports, sports bulletins and entertainment magazines to your people, using XChange Media or Video on Demand service.
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Offer cost-efficient prepaid solutions
Marlink provides cost-effective voice and data with easy prepaid personal vouchers or through complete welfare packages managed by headquarters. Accounts remain ‘portable’ for each worker and are fully transparent, while administrators can order, activate, recharge and monitor usage.
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Allocate data efficiently, in line with your policies
Through flexible settings for user groups and individual end users, Marlink enables you to enforce your assigned fair usage policy and company policy behind welfare. Private web usage can be limited to a certain data volume or time limit.
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Simplify user management
Free to use, an intuitive customer portal provides access to vouchers and usage information. Your employees can self-register to use prepaid credit, while credit can be monitored and controlled either individually or by user groups of by the designated administrator.
Highlights
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Telemed
Provide the ideal, cost-efficient solution for managing illness or injuries from remotely
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Universal Card
Enable employees to make private calls, send emails, SMS messages and access the web using their own self-managed prepaid credit
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Enterprise Welfare Services
Recruit and keep the best staff with flexible worker welfare solutions
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XChange WIFI & BYOD
Allow your crew to straightforwardly connect to the internet at sea - just like at home
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XChange Media
Give your crew access to daily news, sports and current affairs without any impact on your airtime speeds or costs
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XCHANGE REPORTS
Keep track of crew airtime usage and credit allocation
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Telemed
Provide the ideal, cost-efficient solution for managing illness or injuries from remotely
Telemed
With the health and safety of remote workers and passengers paramount, our telemedicine service is the ideal solution for managing illness or injuries remotely.
Thanks to the secure transmission and storing of medical data, telemedicine service assists the onshore medical professional in his decision-making, and may thereby avoid unnecessary and costly vessel re-routings or evacuation.
The solution comprises a compact suitcase with CE certified medical equipment and an interactive web portal facilitating immediate video medical consultations and giving doctors full access to the patient’s medical data.
Features
- Fully contained: within a reinforced, portable case enabling the capture and transmission of vital data
- Clear instructions and reference diagrams: enclosed to assist the remote user with data capture, viewing and sending
- Enclosed tablet PC: medical data is centrally displayed here and on the web portal viewed by the Doctor ashore, while the HD camera enables an interactive consultation
- Secure: patient data transfer and hosting
- Full maintenance: leasing and maintenance of telemed station including touchscreen interface is fully included in the package
- Full visibility: access to the web-based portal enables doctors to straightforwardly view the video link and access patient data
- Satcom optimised: live remote video consultation
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Universal Card
Enable employees to make private calls, send emails, SMS messages and access the web using their own self-managed prepaid credit
Universal Card
The Universal Card™ prepaid solution offers users a convenient way to stay in touch with friends and family and makes managing satellite communications simple.
Features
- Facilitates prepaid: crew or team members can make prepaid private calls, send prepaid emails, send SMS messages and access the web in certain scenarios
- Improved crew morale: complete cost control over private voice calling with minimal administration and at no additional cost
- Separate networks: separate private from corporate telephony to ensure no private voice calling on your monthly airtime invoice
- Affordable rates: enable your crew to call home at competitive rates
- Online management: order, activate, recharge and monitor your cards in Universal Card Manager
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Enterprise Welfare Services
Recruit and keep the best staff with flexible worker welfare solutions
Enterprise Welfare Services
In those times where working in remote area is more and more difficult, Worker Welfare solutions will help you recruit and keep the best staff.
- Flexible business models: we can re-use your existing infrastructure to reduce costs or deliver end-to-end, fully managed solutions
- Video on Demand (VoD): video catalog updated every month with latest release from Hollywood and other partners
- Access to news: 7000 newspaper from 120 countries
- Internet prepaid voucher with easy online payment and reload
- Recreational internet access for remote workers with a secured Wi-Fi network or a Point-to-Point link
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XChange WIFI & BYOD
Allow your crew to straightforwardly connect to the internet at sea - just like at home
XChange WIFI & BYOD
XChange WIFI & Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an innovative and cost-effective communication solution simplifying the use of personal devices at sea.
- Fully preconfigured with XChange
- Quick and easy to deploy hardware
- Fleet wide roll out is quick and easy via our free Voice and Data apps and user self-registration
Packaged with XChange WiFi hardware, our plug & play solution provides optimal access to the XChange environment.
Relying on carefully selected hardware and specially developed software, the option offers IT managers all benefits of XChange: access control, prepaid accounting, multiple voice lines, etc. in addition to this feature.Crew Internet Cafe
Furthermore, besides the use of personal devices, XChange can be used to enable an Internet Café environment onboard your vessel. Crew can access the internet via central crew computers onboard and browse the internet in a controlled way. -
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XChange Media
Give your crew access to daily news, sports and current affairs without any impact on your airtime speeds or costs
XChange Media
XChange Media can bring crew together in their social time in a communal environment that further fosters good teamwork and morale, by delivering news, reports, sports bulletins and entertainment magazines to crew on board.
Features
- Compatibility: compatible with all major smart-devices, PCs, laptops, as well as communal televisions via a set-top-box
- Multilingual: multiple language options with new content added regularly
- Managed from shore: activated within a few clicks
- No fuss: delivered at no extra airtime cost and without any impact on VSAT allowance or speed
- Affordable: XChange Media comes with affordable program packages which can be activated online
- Easy Activation: once activated, the content can be shared with all crew members at no extra cost for them, as no internet connection is needed to use the service and no extra log-in or password
- Fully integrated into XChange: available on the service delivery platform with no additional hardware required
- Optional extras: set-top-box fully preconfigured for XChange Media
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XCHANGE REPORTS
Keep track of crew airtime usage and credit allocation
XCHANGE REPORTS
Vessel operators on shore want to stay up to date with how connectivity is used on board. They want to know how much traffic crew generates compared to business usage, which connectivity devices are utilised, who the top users are and how this picture compares to previous months.
They need to understand which crew member received how much credit in order to make the proper payroll calculations.
Monthly XChange Usage Reports and XChange Credit Reports deliver numerous benefits and efficiency-gains:
- Up-to-date insight into airtime consumption patterns
- Eliminate labour-intensive manual data extraction and aggregation
- Facilitate re-billing credit purchases to crew
- Monitor usage, compare with data from previous months and detect anomalies/mistakes
- Offer optional effort-free and reliable scheduled delivery by email
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Customer case
What customers say
"Almost all our passengers really want to have access to the internet while on board. Guests mainly use internet to send messages, upload photos and use social media. As we go to adventurous destinations with PONANT from North Pole to South Pole they for sure have great memories to share with their families and friends back home." Lucie Condé, Guest Relation Manager - Le Lapérouse / PONANT
