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“As we think about remote work, we have todecide whether it is more likely that people, nowthat they’re working from home, will downloadsensitive data to home and personal computers.”Data governance is always a challenge. It involves understanding who has access to...

“We try to drive remote users to a virtualizationplatform rather than giving them virtual privatenetwork access and allowing them to install theapplication on their local machine.”One of the biggest risks is retained data that is left behind because a person either...

“When working with remote work groups, where and when people do their work and how many hours they are spending are immaterial. What matters are outcomes.” When working with remote work groups, where and when people do their work and how many hours they are spending...

“Successful companies are not just blasting out technology. They are teaching people how to use the technology to work in a new way.” We were in the collaboration business when COVID-19 hit. We realized that we were not only sending all our employees home, we were...

“The majority of the companies I’ve been talking to have accelerated their digital transformationplans.” The majority of the companies I’ve been talking to have accelerated their digital transformation plans. For example, a major retailer in San Francisco was looking...

“With physical distancing an expected norm for the near future, we must spend less timethinking about density and more time asking what we are using the space for.”For quite some time, density was a lever we could pull to create a level of financial efficiency in our...

"In the longer term, we’ll have to rethink the way our office spaces look and how they’reused."We are in the process of re-imaging what our workspace will look like to continue to be a more agile, nimble company and culture. I’m not sure that I’m sold on...

"Working out the future operating model is tricky.It depends on what the business is doing and theway it uses its offices. "First, an organization must assess its future operating model. That model may be the same one as before. In many cases, it is typical for around...

“We are reimagining the workplace, then reevaluating workplaces in ourbuildings. ”The immediate impact of the pandemic, from a facilities, real estate, and workplace perspective, is the change in behaviors. These changes will drive people to use the workplace...