FORWARDING DEMO · REFERENCE NOTES
Check the instructions
for your actual service.
The demo illustrates the concept of forwarding an existing number to another voice number and turning that forwarding off. Its controls are illustrations. It does not document a Northwoods Desk customer installation or establish compatibility with every phone system.
Provider guidance checked September 8, 2026
- Verizon mobile: Call Forwarding FAQs. Documents *72 plus a ten-digit destination for all-call forwarding, *71 for unanswered calls, and *73 to disable forwarding. These examples apply to the mobile service described on that page. Forwarded calls can incur plan-based charges; voice forwarding does not forward texts.
- AT&T wireless: Use call forwarding. Directs users to device-specific instructions and says settings must be changed from the wireless phone. Notes voicemail and billing effects, including possible charges.
- AT&T device tutorial: Call Forwarding. Shows Always forward and Turn off controls for the device covered by that tutorial. This is an example of a device-specific interface, not a screen shared by every AT&T phone.
What to confirm before setup
Identify the exact carrier, service type, phone or office system, supported forwarding modes, destination restrictions, charges, and effect on voicemail. Follow that service’s instructions, then test both forwarding and the return to normal ringing and voicemail.
Forwarding does not itself guarantee outage protection. Any fallback arrangement requires separate design and testing. This preview makes no claim that an outage fallback has been completed for Northwoods Desk.
The $20/hour employee-cost illustration
This is an illustrative hiring scenario, not a claim about the local market wage. Assumptions: $20/hour × 40 paid hours/week × 52 weeks = $41,600 annual wages. Employer Social Security at 6.2% = $2,579.20; employer Medicare at 1.45% = $603.20. Total wages plus those employer taxes = $44,782.40/year, or $3,731.87/month. The website rounds that monthly figure to $3,732.
The IRS guidance on Social Security and Medicare withholding rates, checked September 9, 2026, gives the 6.2% employer Social Security and 1.45% employer Medicare rates used here. The illustrated wages are below the Social Security wage base.
The subtotal excludes federal and state unemployment taxes, workers’ compensation, benefits, recruiting, training, payroll administration, coverage and turnover costs. Those costs depend on the employer and are not assigned invented amounts. It assumes an ordinary employee subject to these taxes; actual tax treatment may vary. It is not a Northwoods Desk price or a guaranteed savings calculation. The comparison concerns phone intake rather than every responsibility an employee could perform.