Remote Working

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Virtual and Remote Working

Recent events are making virtual and remote working more and more common. Briggs IT Services has extensive experience deploying and managing Virtual and Remote Working solutions allowing your employees to work from anywhere while maintaining security and protecting your companies’ critical data. Virtual environments have all the same capabilities as physical workstations and can be supported and maintained by Briggs IT Services with the same ease and simplicity as the rest of your business’s physical environment. Whether you’re in Katy, Cypress, or Houston, and the surrounding areas – Briggs IT Services is here to support your company’s virtual and remote working solutions.

Working from home has become business as usual. Not long ago, remote working was something only a small percentage of the workforce enjoyed. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused an instantaneous change. Companies that had physical office spaces had to change; they were forced to send their employees home to work remotely. Today many of them continue to work from home and do so successfully.

Other than factory jobs, restaurants, grocery stores, retail and other businesses that require people to work on location, there are many companies that are finding the change is not as painful as they initially thought. While a 100% WFH (work from home) workforce may not be for every company, the number of companies that will adapt to a percentage of their workforce going remote will have greater impact beyond the company, its employees, and its customers. There is a continuing (and most would say positive) impact on society.

The effects of remote working affect:
1. Commuting: Those individuals working from home are no longer be commuting to their offices. As a result, fewer drivers, and cars on the road. That’s good for climate change and emissions.
2. Office Buildings: As more people do remote working, they are no longer going to an office, which results in businesses reexamining their office leases. The demand for office space appears to be dropping, which results in less tenants and possibly seeing many downtown properties repurposed from commercial office space into residential and other uses.
3. Fewer People Downtown: The prediction is that Downtown restaurants and other businesses in commercial districts will have fewer customers, so that coffee shops, restaurants and local retailers could be hit hard.
4. Spending moves to the Suburbs: As the transition to remote working continues, there will most likely be fewer people downtown and money will start to be invested further away from the city. People working from home will want larger homes with extra rooms for offices and will move further out where they can build bigger homes that are less expensive.

Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, predicts: “We forecast that 25-30% of the U.S. workforce will be working-from-home one or more days a week after the pandemic.” Currently, 56% of the U.S. workforce have jobs that are at least partially compatible with remote work.

Productivity of people working from home appears to be higher than those working in offices and both companies and employees save money. Lister’s research estimates that a typical employer can save about $11,000 per year for every person who works remotely half of the time. The employees save on gas, clothes, cleaning and more.
Flexible work is where the future of work is going. Companies worldwide are asking their employees to work from home, and, as a result remote work has become the new normal for global businesses and enterprise employers. Some of the benefits of working from home for employers and employees can include improved well-being and lower costs.

In RingCentral’s research report titled Is Remote Work Sustainable?, a focus on a “connected culture” leads to significant gains in employee productivity and well-being. Connection is more than being technologically connected. It is about conversations, activities and projects that bring people together, even if they are working from home.

Virtual environments have all the same capabilities as physical workstations and can be supported and maintained by Briggs IT Services with the same ease and simplicity as the rest of your business’s physical environment. Whether you’re in Katy, Cypress, or Houston, and the surrounding areas – Briggs IT Services is here to support your company’s virtual and remote working solutions.