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COVID-19 forced a change that everyone already saw coming but most organizations were not prepared for – widespread, remote work.
Over the past few months, organizations have been struggling to keep up with the change in how their employees stay connected on a day-to-day basis, as well as managing these remote employees and keeping them productive and engaged.
Read on to see experts in the VDI space talk about their approach to remote work, why VDI can help manage remote employees and how one DaaS provider helped ease remote work issues.
Future of remote work will be heavily influenced by COVID-19
Work-from-home technology has proven itself in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, experts said, erasing some of the productivity worries that held up remote working. It has, by necessity, spurred organizations to enact remote-work policies and invest in the tech needed to enable them.
Yet, with talk of reopening the economy and easing social distancing restrictions, analysts said the lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic won’t completely transform a company’s operations to accommodate a complete work-from-home shift. Instead, the future of remote work will likely be a mix of in-office and at-home days.
“Coronavirus has been very successful in realizing sudden and dramatic changes in both the digital workplace and employee experience,” said Dion Hinchcliffe, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research in Cupertino, Calif. “While some of these changes will fade — most likely the clunkier tech and modes of remote work like video calls — the indications I’m seeing are that many of the shifts will stay.”