COVID-19 has raised many questions about the maintenance of privacy, data protection, security and compliance of organizations. The norms considered to be the standard practice took a drastic turn when organizations of all sizes were forced to shift to remote-working arrangements almost overnight. With remote work still going strong, the pandemic leaves organizations vulnerable to security breaches largely because of the expanded attack surface. This has raised key deficiencies including: 

Looking for answers for your organization on how to better solve problems with migrating employees to a Work From Home format?  Watch this video interview as Henning Volkmer, President & CEO of ThinPrint, an industry expert in corporate print management, shares his expertise across a number of topics to help with the shift of users from the office to working from home.

About a third of Americans are now working from home, more ever than before.  And quite simply, that's due in large part because of COVID-19 and the pandemic that was unleashed across the globe this year. 

In this latest VMblog #WorkFromHome Series, we're exploring what technology means in this current paradigm shift of working remotely.  And in order to do that, we're reaching out to industry experts to help shine a light on the subject.  We're asking these experts to offer up their opinions and advice on what's taking place now and where things go in the future. 

In this Q&A, VMblog connected with industry expert, Nico Zieck, Senior IT Architect at Liquit, to get his opinion on the work from home topic and at the same time, find out more about how Liquit can help companies achieve a positive work from home shift.

THE BIG CHALLENGE

It started with Wi-Fi access and boomed! Then the work life balance generation came on strong, and now COVID-19. Working remotely, although not a new concept for some of us who's role requires travel, has exploded and is now a necessity due to the recent pandemic. Companies went from an average of 80% of their workforce required to operate in an office environment (on-prem), to 100% remote in an instant. IT teams should be commended for facilitating the process so quickly with some having limited resources at their disposal. Nonetheless, the biggest challenge now is that what, companies thought would be a temporary setup is not going away anytime soon. Some Silicon Valley organizations are instructing their workers to work remotely until at least the late Fall timeframe; Google plans on keeping workers remote until as late as October of 2021 and potentially longer.

About a third of Americans are now working from home, more ever than before.  And quite simply, that's due in large part because of COVID-19 and the pandemic that was unleashed across the globe this year. 

In this latest VMblog #WorkFromHome Series, we're exploring what technology means in this current paradigm shift of working remotely.  And in order to do that, we're reaching out to industry experts to help shine a light on the subject.  We're asking these experts to offer up their opinions and advice on what's taking place now and where things go in the future. 

In this Q&A, VMblog connected with industry experts from the ControlUp Technical Marketing Team (Trentent Tye, Tom Fenton, Melissa Case and Leeza Malachevsky) to get their opinions on the work from home topic and at the same time, find out more about how ControlUp can help companies achieve a positive work from home shift.

Looking for answers for your organization on how to better solve problems with migrating employees to a Work From Home format?  Watch this video interview as Yoni Avital, co-founder and COO of ControlUp, a technology company at the forefront of self-driven IT management and monitoring solutions, shares his expertise across a number of topics to help with the shift of users from the office to working from home. 

About a third of Americans are now working from home, more ever than before.  And quite simply, that's due in large part because of COVID-19 and the pandemic that was unleashed across the globe this year. 

In this latest VMblog #WorkFromHome Series, we're exploring what technology means in this current paradigm shift of working remotely.  And in order to do that, we're reaching out to industry experts to help shine a light on the subject.  We're asking these experts to offer up their opinions and advice on what's taking place now and where things go in the future. 

In this Q&A, VMblog connected with industry expert, Michael Kent, CTO at Login VSI, to get his opinion on the work from home topic and at the same time, find out more about how Login VSI can help companies achieve a positive work from home shift.

Looking for answers for your organization on how to better solve problems with migrating employees to a Work from Home format?  Watch this video interview as Michael Kent, Chief Technology Officer of Login VSI, a company dedicated to maximizing the end-user experience, shares his expertise across a number of topics to help with the shift of users moving from the office to instead working from home.