Hybrid and Remote Working

Introduction
● Remote working: Employees who do their work from a location other
than the employer's central office are known as remote workers. An
employee's home, a co-working or other shared space, a private office, or
any other site other than a standard corporate office building or campus
could be used.
● Hybrid working: Hybrid working is a type of flexible working where an
employee splits their time between the workplace and remote working
ARTICLE 1
● A wide range of surveys have shown that employees do not wish to
return to commuting five days a week.
● Studies have shown that employees who have the flexibility to work
wherever they prefer enhances productivity.
● Our relationship with work has changed.
● Changed expectation of work.
● No one size fits all.
ARTICLE 2
● Because of the pandemic, a lot of people shifted to remote work
● As the pandemic is slowly relaxing, people are commuting to their
workplace.
● Guidance to work from home has been lifted in many companies.
ARTICLE 3
● As the pandemic hit, people started working remotely and started living
away from their workplaces.
● Post pandemic, real estate prices have soared in suburbs as well as
exburubs of big cities.
● Demand > supply, as a lot of people are looking to buy homes.
● Employees want to able to spend more family time.
ARTICLE:4
● Hybrid work model simply means the combination of remote and regular
on premise workforce.
● Cybersecurity challenges in adopting hybrid model are data, devices and
behaviour
● Hybrid Work Model Strategies
● Implementation of ‘Zero Trust Approach’
ARTICLE: 5
● Employees have little appetite for going back to office full time.
● Keeping the statistics and studies in mind, employers have started
increasing their pay to bring them back to their cubicle.
● To give or to take ?
● Provision of breakfasts, drinks, gym memberships etc.
● Chances of aggravating pay gaps
Article: 6
● Pre pandemic, people had a routine job
● As the pandemic hit us, we all lost physical touch points
● We’re in the midst of a quitagion
● Post pandemic, a lot of people have realized that they do not like their
jobs or it has exhausted them.
● It’s important to understand that we can change the way ‘WORK’ is
through better boundaries, work hours, policies and better leaders.
Article: 7
● Most tech workers did not fan out across the country.
● High paying tech jobs in superstar cities comprised of 38.2 percent of tech
jobs by the end of the decade.
● By the end of 2019, the market share of tech jobs increased in rising star
cities as well. ( 3% average annual growth rate.)
● The growth rate dropped in 2020 from 5% to 2.9%
● US migration pattern showed that people people were moving away from
central business districts towards lower density suburbs i.e. called ‘donut
effect’
Advantages
1. Boosts productivity

● Increased flexibility
● Employee wellbeing and satisfaction
● Improved employee retention rates
2. Better work life balance

● Allows employees to schedule their professional lives

around their personal lives.
● Allows employees to utilize their time better.
● Less commuting saves time.
● Work life fit is a vital aspect of any healthy working
environment.
● Better work life balance makes employees more productive
and focused.
3. Reduced Expenditure of employees and employer
1. Employees: Reduction of Transport and Rental Costs

- Sara was able to save $15 a day on commute service.

1. Employer/Organization: Reduction of office supplies, office space/rent, utility expenses

- In New York, an organization can save around 1.815 million euros(50% of 3.6 million
euros of operating expenses)
4. Greater Potential Talent
- Employees from all over the world can apply in an organization

- Diverse Talent or talent from all around the world applies to your organization

- Increase in performance and productivity when best employees are selected

- Workforce diversity can be a competitive advantage

- Google started hybrid work where employees come to office for only 3 days a we
Disadvantages
1. GENERAL DATA PROTECTION

● These new circumstances of hybrid working demand a different security stance than
working from centralized offices
● As an employee if we end up suddenly managing remote teams, it can be daunting to
think about data security with everything else that’s going on
● Many employees who are not familiar with data security issues may not grasp how a
simple slip-up on their part could lead to a data breach that exposes the personal data
you are charged to protect
Some of the major disadvantages on general data protection while working
from home are :

● The WiFi networks and routers

● Corporate VPNs
● Increase in Email exchange
● Video conference
2. CYBER SECURITY RISK

● Cybersecurity teams, for their part, were largely successful in taking on a dual
mission of supporting business continuity and protecting the enterprise and its
customers
● Attackers seek to exploit the gaps opened when telecommuting employees use
insecure devices and networks
● According to the article cyber security in the hybrid workplace we have come to
know that in 2021 itself 61% of malware directed at the organizations targeted
employees via cloud apps
Some of the major disadvantages on cyber security while working from home
are:

● Reusing password
● Enabling social engineer
● Email communication
3.Technological Barriers
● Disconnected
● Limited resources
● Difficulty to adopt new changes.
4.Employee’s performance reduction
● Lack of self-motivation
● Underutilization of resources
● Lack of development of Personal skills
● Surveillance
● Office culture/communication
 After the pandemic, do you
think there should be end of
remote work?
Remote work
And Hybrid work
In office work
● Equip employees with the right tools and technology
● Frequently update network security systems (Mobile
Device Management)
● Regulate the use of personal devices (BYOD policy)
● Institute a “Zero Trust” approach
● Monitor employees’ remote work practices (remote
monitoring system)
● Make sure all internet connections are secure (VPN)
● Require employees to use strong and varied passwords
(password manager)
● Utilize multi-factor authentication (MFA)
● Train employees well and supply them with robust IT
support (Cyber-security awareness training)
● Use screen sharing software
● Use collaborative platforms
● Live caption Zoom Meetings
● Subtitle videos for ESL Employees
Conclusion
● Right IT infrastructure required
● IT reliability and efficiency
● IT and Business Alignment
● Having the right IT infrastructure alone is not enough (need of right
people)
THANK YOU!!