Remote working is not the future but the new normal. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, 50% of the country’s population already worked online. Now with things taking on a new curve, this percentage is even higher. In a perfect world, this paradigm shift would be much-welcomed. But the truth is very few businesses were ready.
Once the pandemic hit and the world went into lockdown, businesses had to quickly rethink the entire idea of work. It was a moment of triage and trying to find tools to empower a remote workforce. Companies began to urgently prepare to shift to a remote workforce, looking for sometimes short-term solutions that allowed employees to work anywhere. Now, businesses are adopting new work models and focusing on the ability to work from wherever better.
2021 is weeks away, and with it comes the hope of normalcy. As we’ve all learned, normal was a relative term, so now, we’re all saying the new normal. In the new year, there are many possibilities about what the workplace will look like, or if there will even be traditional workplaces anymore.
With so many people working from home offices in 2020 for the first time, businesses have to re-think worker safety. If employees don’t have what they need to work effectively, the company faces increased risks. A lot of businesses focus on protecting against cyber-threats when addressing WFH security but equally important is worker health and safety. If you haven’t already, now’s the time to conduct an ergonomic audit to minimize exposure to workers’ compensation risk and to enable your teams to thrive while working from anywhere.
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With all workers moving to remote, Mr. Osburn said the transition was rather easy. “I didn’t have to do much as the IT manager. Everything we’ve built with infrastructure and the Intermedia platform was ready to go. Really, it was just another day at the office,” he commented.
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