A matter of security

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Employers may have concerns about cyber security when it comes to remote working. If you consider an employee taking a work laptop home and connecting to the office servers via a secure connection with all the latest patches installed it seems low risk but there are other factors to consider. If a worker uses their own equipment, it may not be as well secured and could introduce malware or a virus to the network. Copies of confidential files downloaded to a laptop or

If a worker uses their own equipment, it may not be as well secured and could introduce malware or a virus to the network. Copies of confidential files downloaded to a laptop or smartphone are no longer secure – anyone who can hong kong whatsapp phone number access the device can read them. Although all these issues can be addressed by a combination of technology and policy, you can see why IT managers might be reluctant to open that can of worms in the first place.



It’s a yes or no question
There seems to be the attitude that working from home is either all or nothing; either employees work from home full-time, or they come into the office. Either every department works remotely, or none does. The truth is that there are some roles that are much more suited to distance working than others, but that most roles can be carried out from home at least part of the time.



There’s no virtual in team
How can you build a team, when people don’t really see each other? If you’re not bumping into each other at the coffee machine or killing time in a meeting waiting for that one person who’s always later, how do you forge relationships? Michael Ortner, CEO of Capterra, says that ‘a company is nothing but its people and its culture’ and considers telecommuting to be dangerous.