Covid-19 has forced IT (information technology) teams and
business leaders to rethink where and how their employees will
work. With the new normality already in place, but challenged by
the Delta and Omicron variants, many organizations are still
trying to determine what their future hybrid work model will
look like; recent survey data from the International Data
Corporation (IDC) shows that stability and geography will define
the balance of future work strategies.
Globally, physical offices are still expected to be the dominant
location for work, as organizations are in a more stable
environment, but are not free from contagion. However, the mix
of office, remote, out-of-office and field workers is expected to
vary from region to region. Workers in Asia/Pacific, for example,
are more likely to opt for physical office space as a primary
workplace compared to the United States and Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA). In EMEA, where a much higher
proportion of respondents (27%) prefer to work from home or
remote locations as their primary work location.
Working primarily within office facilities, while a dominant
option, will be part of a hybrid mix that will adapt to new and
unforeseen challenges of organizational, political, social and
health instability.
Another important aspect of these hybrid work strategies is the
effort to achieve “experience parity” i.e., an employee
experience where the hybrid workforce ensures that all workers
interact safely with corporate resources in a consistent context
across all locations; it is popular knowledge that most
organizations have not yet achieved parity of experience; nearly
half of the companies surveyed by IDC indicated that their
hybrid work technologies, policies and processes were “in
progress” with most key resources available to remote
employees. This confirms that providing print resources to those
teleworkers who need them is an unfinished business and a
significant opportunity for the print industry.
Investment in digital and work transformation technologies is in
line with organizational imperatives around enhancing the new
business normal and increasing employee productivity.
Source:IDC, Nubeprint
