Hybrid and remote work here to stay for most businesses
A new study finds that 94 percent of organizations shifted to some sort of hybrid work structure due to the pandemic and 71 percent plan to make these practices permanent.
The study from Foundry, based on responses from over 400 IT and business decision-makers in the US, shows 72 percent of IT decision-makers believe there has been a positive shift in the remote and hybrid work mindset due to the work-from-home transition.
Cloudy with a chance of higher earnings
The latest 2022 Cloud Salary Survey from O'Reilly shows that tech workers make more money in hybrid or remote work scenarios and gain increased salary and skills training through workplace learning.
It also shows that 20 percent of tech workers report they've already changed employers over the last year, and 25 percent of respondents are planning to find new employment with better compensation.
The challenges of fully remote work environments [Q&A]
Prior to the pandemic, only six percent of employees worked remotely. In tech, and specifically cyber, though that number is considerably higher.
But what benefits and challenges do high levels of remote working present? We spoke to DNSFilter CEO and co-founder, Ken Carnesi to find out.
A third of UK office workers face tech issues when working remotely
A third of UK office workers have experienced problems with their workplace technology while operating remotely and it can take over three days, on average, for kit to be replaced.
The research from smart locker provider Velocity Smart Technology also finds that despite the challenges IT departments have been subjected to over the last two years, 37 percent of UK workers say that support from their IT department has improved.
What it takes to build a successful remote team in today's climate
You've probably spent the majority of your career in an office. The commute, the quick chats at the coffee maker, the cleanest bathroom on the third floor -- these trivial details became as much a part of your workday as spreadsheets and meetings.
Then, just like that, everything changed. IT teams scrambled to find a secure way to keep people working from home. Managers questioned how to keep productivity up, and the C-suite kept a wary eye over everything (that, at least, didn’t change).
How the Ukraine-Russia conflict affects international remote employment
Russia invading Ukraine is just the latest large-scale crisis and source of consternation on the world stage. The effects of a lingering pandemic, decimated economies and the threat of spiraling global war add up to a fraught situation for employees, recruiters, managers and business leaders.
This is a brief look at how the Ukraine-Russia conflict is affecting the stability, availability, culture and safety of international remote employment.
How IT can fix the employee experience [Q&A]
The world of work has changed quite considerably over the past few years, driven by a number of factors, not least the pandemic.
Many of these changes have been positive, but some, in particular the shift to hybrid working, have brought challenges too. Some tasks are simply more difficult to do remotely.
Zoom update brings a slew of new features to its desktop apps including gesture recognition
Over the course of the pandemic and COVID-related lockdowns, video conferencing tool Zoom went mainstream. The company is not resting on its laurels following its swelled popularity, and the latest update to the desktop apps illustrate this perfectly.
One of the stand-out additions will be familiar to anyone who has used Zoom on an iPhone or iPad: Gesture Recognition. This new feature brings new ways to interact with Zoom and your fellow meeting participants via your web cam, but it is far from being the only thing worth exploring in the latest update. There are also changes to breakout rooms and more.
Securing remote work isn't a perk of the job: 4 tips for the future of flexibility
In workplaces around the country, business leaders are struggling to settle on a long-term policy for their return to the office. The issue isn’t just the pandemic, although sudden changes have caused companies like Ford and Google to delay their return-to-office strategies. The more pressing challenge as enterprises grapple with the choice of remote or in-person work is employee retention and recruitment. The fact of the matter is some workers would rather quit than go back to commuting and working in an office.
But while corporate leaders are considering the impact of remote, hybrid, and in-person work policies as part of their retention strategies, they must also bear in mind the cybersecurity implications of these flexible approaches. For your CISOs and security team leads, securing remote workers isn’t a perk of the job.
Poor security practices still a challenge for hybrid work
Almost a third (29 percent) of workers still use the same passwords for both personal and work accounts, potentially compromising their organisation if a personal account gets hacked.
A new study of 2,000 UK adults carried out by OnePoll for professional services company Gemserv also shows 39 percent of respondents access corporate accounts and content from their personal devices often or always, with another 24 percent doing so sometimes.
Three-quarters of businesses plan to redesign the office as employees return
The switch to hybrid working driven by the pandemic has had a major impact on the relationship between employers and employees.
As people begin to drift back to the office, a new study by audio visual equipment specialist Poly shows that only 19 percent of enterprises are expecting staff to come back to the office full time, while 77 percent plan to redesign the office to include more open-plan areas, collaboration spaces, areas to socialize and quiet zones.
Leadership and technology tips for running a remote company successfully [Q&A]
When the world shut down in March 2020, many of us envisioned a two-week work-from-home stint, followed by a prompt return to office life. Little did we know that the business world, as we knew it, would change forever.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the overnight shift to a remote workforce was done out of necessity. But, over the past two years, companies have realized that this new operations model can have many business benefits, including cost savings associated with physical office space and a better work/life balance for employees.
Employees are working fewer hours and are more productive but still risk burnout
Employees now work fewer hours per day with greater efficiency, yielding a 40 percent jump in productivity, according to a new digital workplace report from ActivTrak Productivity Lab.
However, the findings also show that 34 percent of employees continue to be 'overutilized' at work, spending more than 75 percent of their time in this state. Only 62 percent of employees maintain a healthy balance of productivity to work hours, falling significantly short of the 80 percent goal the Productivity Lab recommends.
Clever optimizations have slashed Microsoft Teams' power consumption in half while boosting performance
Microsoft has revealed details of how it managed to simultaneously boost the performance of Teams, while reducing power consumption. Such are the efficiency improvements that have been implemented that Microsoft Teams now uses less than half the power it did a year and a half ago.
This is hugely significant at any time, but all the more so given the number of people now working remotely and reliant on internet-based meetings. For organizations who have turned to Microsoft Teams during the coronavirus pandemic, the cost savings add up significantly.
The rise of the 'super malicious' insider
Humans have always been a weak link in the cybersecurity chain and a new report from DTEX Systems provides evidence that the sudden shift to remote working has directly contributed to an escalation in psychosocial human behaviors that create organizational risk.
In particular it notes the rise of 'super malicious' insiders, who accounted for 32 percent of malicious insider incidents investigated by the DTEX Insider Intelligence and Investigations (I3) team in 2021.
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