Cloudbrink 2024 Predictions: The year networking catches up with hybrid working needs
The year networking catches up with hybrid working needs It’s a safe bet that about half the predictions made for 2024 will be wrong. Predicting change is easy. Getting the timing right is another matter. When we started working with our design partners in 2020 we bet that the world would move steadily towards hybrid working. In fact, hybrid work took off like a rocket. While pandemic set off the revolution, it is millennials and Gen Z — the first 100% digital generation — that are keeping it going. The 9 to 5 mentality is long gone. Shift hours are not the motivation; it is better work-life balance, operational efficiency, and productivity that we care about. What seemed like a transient problem during covid times has now become an existential and generational issue. This shift to hybrid work has sent IT teams into overdrive trying to fulfil the secure connectivity needs of a workforce that is no longer office based but which would need to be equipped to work from anywhere. IT r...