Working from home looks set to stay for public sector employees

Many public sector employees look set to remain working from home for the long-term as a result of the pandemic. Public sector leaders reported that working from home is here to stay with almost half of those surveyed believing that 70 percent or more of their formerly office-based employees would be allowed to continue to work from home in some …

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Employees still guilty of reusing passwords at work

Just a quarter of employees save their passwords, either in a notebook, their smartphone or a password management app, according to data from KnowBe4. This means that most people are guilty of using the same password across multiple services, the company claims, making them easy prey for hackers. All online accounts, especially banking services, require a strong password to protect …

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Five tips on enabling ongoing and dependable IT support for your employees and clients

The ongoing pandemic has forced many a business to reimagine their processes and reorganize their workforce for remote work. Needless to say, the changes have impacted business employees and clients alike. Mentioned ahead are a few tips on how organizations can set up remote IT support systems for their staff and customers so that both get the help they need …

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Smaller firms need to better connect with their employees

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced entire countries into lockdown and many employees into a remote working environment. This way of working has not sat well with some employees, resulting in increased stress and anxiety, as well as decreased optimism for the future. In many cases, remote workers also worried about the mental health of their loved ones. According to a …

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Remote working has pushed SMB employees to the brink of burnout

Remote working may have provided a means of keeping businesses afloat during the pandemic, but it is also taking its toll on the mental health of employees. This is according to a new report from 8×8, which argues that remote workers have been pushed to brink of burnout by Covid-19. Polling more than 1,000 small and medium-sized business employees for …

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Management practices need to adapt to manage ‘out of sight’ employees

Employees managed to adopt remote working quickly and with relative ease, but what about management? According to a new report from VMware, it’s complicated; the C-suite and other managers are having trouble adapting to the new normal and being at peace with the ‘out of sight’ employee. Polling 2,850 HR leaders and IT decision makers from EMEA, the firm uncovered …

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Nearly half of employees think full-time remote working doesn’t work

Full-time remote working has had its moment in the sun, but it seems as if the euphoria was short-lived. Collaboration solutions provider Barco has published a new report, based on a poll of 1,750 employees around the world, which states that just 15 percent would want to continue working from home full-time after Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. Almost half of …

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Security teams are struggling to curb employees’ risky work behaviors online

Warnings from security experts about the myriad of threats lurking online have fallen on deaf ears, as the majority of employees are still actively engaged in unsafe and unproductive web activity when they should be working. This is according to a new report from Censornet, based on a poll of 300 cybersecurity pros, which states that two thirds (67 percent) …

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