Tag: remote work

November 30, 2021

Remote workers have had to cope with serious technical issues while working from home since the Covid-19 outbreak began, according to research from Apogee Corporation. The study of more than 2,000 office workers from the managed workplace services provider revealed […]

October 4, 2021

With the rapid pace of technological change comes the need for upskilling IT workers — especially when talent is hard to come by. For IT leaders, the pandemic’s ongoing disruption of the workplace has only compounded the challenge. Although many […]

August 27, 2021

The average employee will prefer to work from home nearly half the time after the pandemic is over. Employees are also demanding flexible schedules and remote work, and as a result, executives are planning to reduce office space by 30%. […]

August 23, 2021

At Pegasystems, the past year and a half spent navigating the COVID-19 crisis has created a tale of two organizations and two types of employees: one itching to get back to normal office life and the other determined to hang […]

August 12, 2021

Remote work has become a catch-all for work done anywhere that is not in a designated onsite office. Yet now, the hybrid work model is emerging as organizations redefine the work environment to include both remote and in-office team members. […]

April 7, 2021

Throughout the past year, COVID-19 showcased IT’s ability to not only fight the virus but also drive innovation to keep businesses up and running while protecting them from cyber-adversaries. Innovations in communications technology has ensured that nearly 60% of people […]

February 17, 2021

Finding effective ways of managing d will be a priority of many businesses in the months to come, as the shift to new styles of working spurred by COVID-19 settle into a long-term trend. While many organizations have been able […]

February 12, 2021

The world has spent most of 2020 adapting to ever-changing guidelines and restrictions (with no end in sight, even as the vaccines start to roll out). Board meetings are quickly increasing in their significance to foster consistent and vital interactions […]

February 3, 2021

Knowledge is power. This is especially true after the disruptive events of 2020, which caused a dramatic shift to remote work. Employees need to find information on their own quickly. Organizations have an obligation to ensure that this information is […]

January 28, 2021

Remote work has become a crucial component of enterprises, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some companies are bringing employees back on-site, others have committed to remote work for the foreseeable future. Research from Nintex shows that remote work has […]

December 21, 2020

Never before have remote teams existed at the unprecedented scale seen today. This new reality of an entirely dispersed workforce threatens one of the most important principles of an Agile approach: collaboration. A recent survey by Lucid revealed that 75% […]

December 8, 2020

The mass migration to remote working has forced chief information security officers to rethink what “secure” means and to re-prioritize the skillsets needed within their information-security teams. This creates challenges for companies — but also creates wide-open opportunities for those […]

November 20, 2020

We’re eight months into corporate America’s great work-from-home experiment, and it hasn’t gone quite the way business leaders expected. Their scattered workforces, even in the midst of a stressful pandemic while shouldering extra burdens like childcare, have been remarkably productive. […]

November 10, 2020

The massive shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic has companies hiring roles to lead the transition. Facebook, Quora, Twitter, GitLab, GitHub and others are hiring or have hired such leaders, according to Darren Murphy, head of remote at […]

November 9, 2020

The pandemic initially caught many companies flat-footed. Business continuity plans took account of scenarios like: “What if I lost my data center?” or “What if this site was offline?” But the situation we faced – social distancing and working remotely […]

October 27, 2020

The statement above — commonly attributed to Vladimir Lenin — still rings true for nearly everyone across the globe this year, as the COVID-19 crisis upended life as we knew it. Since March, the world has changed more dramatically than […]

October 7, 2020

Professional learning and development matter to employees. In fact, the majority of workers consider job training access to be a primary motivator when determining whether or not they’ll remain with an employer. LinkedIn’s 2019 “Workplace Learning Report” survey found that […]

September 18, 2020

The global pandemic accelerated the move towards remote work in a way that few predicted. For some companies, transitioning to a remote workplace was relatively smooth. Companies like Facebook, Twitter and Shopify announced permanent moves to work from home, at […]

September 9, 2020

Last month, Edelman released its Trust Barometer for 2020. Published just as the COVID-19 pandemic was really taking off, it showed that only half of employees believe that office spaces are safe. In most countries, only a quarter or more […]

August 11, 2020

COVID-19 didn’t spell doom and gloom for all CIOs. In fact, 68% agreed their technology infrastructure was prepared to handle employees working from home, according to a report from IDG. And things didn’t change from six month’s prior to COVID-19 […]