Teleworking: between constraints and advantages

A new study finds 36% of companies were not ready to support the abrupt, large-scale transition to remote workforce imposed by COVID-19 measures. However, many of them believe that teleworking could become a "norm"

The pandemic caught many professionals by surprise who were faced with a more or less degraded way of working. The study by Navisite, a UK cloud computing provider, indicates that half of the professionals surveyed experienced IT difficulties during the transition process acca certification.

More seriously, a third admits that they are still facing problems. Almost a quarter (24%) admit that only some of their dysfunctions have been resolved. 5% say that kidney has not been fixed ...

Among the potential obstacles, respondents point out in particular the poor connection to the home of teleworkers (especially when teleworking and distance education occur simultaneously) in 49% of cases, the increased risks in terms of security and compliance ( 46%), neglect of employees in their homes or inappropriate use of company devices (20%) and lack of staff resources to manage the large number of remote users (13%).

“This rush to set up teleworking could potentially make organizations' IS vulnerable. These threats must be corrected both to protect the integrity of their infrastructure and to ensure their compliance with various regulations, insists Karyn Price.

For this senior analyst at Frost & Sullivan, “Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Workspace-as-a-Service can provide secure access to company data and services and they can be deployed, configured and centrally managed. This allows the company to ensure that security and compliance profiles and appropriate access restrictions are maintained, and that data is not stored on local, or even personal, endpoints that are not protected 

Despite all these fears and obstacles, many organizations believe that working remotely could become the "new normal". For companies, the arguments in its favor are the productivity and efficiency of employees but also the reduction of costs in terms of office space and maintenance.