Daily Archives: 07 Apr 2020

Millions of companies worldwide including global players like Google, Microsoft, Twitter, JPMorgan, Apple, KPMG, Nike, Salesforce & Spotify have switched to remote work. From the UK to the US, from China to Singapore, even more companies rolled out mandatory work from home policies amid the spread of COVID-19. Realistically this shift to remote work will become the new normal for many of us for the foreseeable future. And it will, very likely, change the work environment permanently. A 2019 study by online brand development agency Buffer found that 99% of their respondents would like to work from home at least some of their time. After this pandemic goes away, Work From Home will stay and be the new normal. You joined the global Work From Home movement enabling your staff to work remotely due to COVID-19. In the span of a few days, you got your IT infrastructure in place making your team fully operational from home. VPN access, video conferencing, instant messaging, a COVID-19 IT emergency desk, you name it. Your IT team made the impossible possible. After a tremendous effort, they did achieve what had been thought undoable a couple of weeks ago. (if you are not technically ready yet, here: is a set of proven applications you need at minimum) You believe that by having all of the technology in place, you are now perfectly set. The Time calls it “World’s Largest Work From Home Experiment”. You are part of it, but without the preparation the big […]