At the beginning of this year, COVID-19 quickly upended normal in-office operations for organizations across the country. It’s no secret that a lot of IT departments were not prepared to move their entire workforce to an appropriately secure, work-from-home setup.
As IT was supporting this sudden tectonic shift to nearly 100% work-from-anywhere, all available budget and talent had to be focused on getting employees productive from wherever they could work. Now that the shift has largely happened, and the pieces mostly picked up, IT should be planning for a similar shift back to in-office, and what that might mean for the traditional infrastructure they already had in place before 2020.