Quarter of the working week wasted dealing with false positives

A quarter of the working week (10 hours) is spent addressing false positive alerts, a survey of 600 IT and cybersecurity professionals has revealed. Conducted by security company Deep Instinct, the survey found the rest of the time is spent keeping the boat afloat, by rolling out security patches and software updates. Consequently, very little time is left for improvements …

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Remote working led to a rise in cyberattacks last year

Remote working has caused an uptick in the number of cyberattacks and data breaches, research from Atlas VPN suggests. The latest report from the VPN provider states that almost four in five (78 percent) organizations experienced an increase in the volume of cyberattacks as a direct result of the shift to remote working.  According to Atlas VPN, unpatched personal devices, …

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Millennials fear remote working has inhibited career progression

Remote working may offer numerous benefits, but some younger employees believe the practice is inhibiting their career progression, a new report from learning platform Soffos.ai suggests. Polling 1,235 UK workers for the report, Soffos found that a third (34 percent) of those aged 18-34 worry about falling behind their peers in terms of skills and knowledge. This rings true with …

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Many workers have picked up bad cybersecurity behaviors since working from home

Since the transition to remote working, many employees have started disregarding cybersecurity best practices. This is according to a new report from email security software firm Tessian, based on a poll of 4,000 workers in the US and UK, as well as 200 IT professionals. The company found that more than a third (36 percent) have picked up bad cybersecurity …

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UK SMBs don’t think they’ll be able to embrace hybrid working

Employees at small and medium-sized organizations in the UK don’t believe they’ll be able to fully embrace hybrid working and expect to be back in the office as soon as Covid-19 permits. This is according to a new report from digital services and printing solutions provider Ricoh Europe, which found that these workers don’t believe they can be as productive …

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Hybrid working could help improve employee wellbeing

Hybrid working could help boost employee wellbeing by improving mental health and work-life balance, a new report from the workplace platform Envoy suggests. The UK Return to the Workplace Report, based on a poll of 1,000 adults, claims that the benefits of hybrid working are so obvious that most workers would quit their jobs if they didn’t have the opportunity …

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Hybrid working will highlight generational gap in the workforce

Older, wealthier and married people would generally rather adopt a hybrid working model, a new report from Totem suggests, while younger staff and those that don’t earn as much prefer working from the office. The employee engagement company recently polled 1,000 UK-based employees who started new jobs between March 2020 and Feb 2021 about their onboarding and remote working experiences. …

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New working patterns set to drive massive IT spend this year

Businesses will be spending a lot more money on productivity and collaboration tools this year, as they look to support remote and hybrid workers. This is according to a new report from Dynabook Europe, called The Hybrid Shift: Managing an increasingly remote workforce. Polling more than 1,000 senior IT decision-makers at medium to large enterprises within the UK, France, Germany, …

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These are the areas IT leaders need to address to make hybrid working a success

If businesses want to make hybrid working a success, they need to make sure their employees are engaged, productive, and not burning out. This is according to a new report from collaborative work management platform Wrike, based on a poll of more than 300 IT leaders, including CIOs, IT VPs, directors, and managers. Wrike says the modern workspace is already …

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Remote working has led to greater commitment to employee wellbeing

Employees were experiencing burnout long before Covid-19, but the switch to remote working has placed wellbeing front and center and a greater number of business owners are now committed to creating a healthier workplace. These are the conclusions of a new report from collaboration platform Slack. The majority of respondents (56 percent) said their employers were already making improvements to …

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