NEW NORM OR NEW OPPORTUNITY?

Many great inventions around the world occur as a result of crises. Wars have powered the development of technology, bringing us aeroplanes. Plagues accelerated the development of medicine, resulting in significant drug advancement. After any crisis, the winners tend to see all these changes as an opportunity rather than a burden. Are you one of the future winners?

Many great inventions around the world occur as a result of crises. Wars have powered the development of technology, bringing us aeroplanes. Plagues accelerated the development of medicine, resulting in significant drug advancement. After any crisis, the winners tend to see all these changes as an opportunity rather than a burden. Are you one of the future winners?

The term the new normal was coined to describe a significant shift to remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even today, this term carries a somewhat pejorative connotation – it feels as if we were forced into this reality. When the pandemic gets under control, businesses will face the decision: do they go back to the old ways, or do they make remote work part of their culture? 

New normal – good or bad?

Remote work is doable but far from optimised. The biggest challenge with the new normal was that businesses were forced to adjust in a hurry and were, in most cases, completely unprepared. They had to adopt makeshift solutions, often in the face of organisational chaos, selecting options far from optimal but could be implemented quickly. And if something works, even if not that well, it takes a lot of effort to replace it later.

The pandemic has also led to the growth of criminal organisations that specialise in cyber-attacks. Phishing is at an all-time high, ransomware is no longer a threat just to the biggest organisations, and DDoS attacks are easily purchasable from the darknet. Combining the increase in criminal activities with exposure due to makeshift remote work solutions is a recipe for disaster.

The great opportunity

Businesses are facing a situation that brings exceptional opportunities, which are not being explored. Before the pandemic, most companies rarely allowed remote work due to the lack of secure infrastructure to support it and an old-school perception that employees needed to be controlled to perform efficiently. The new norm proved this theory wrong and now gives people a remarkable opportunity to choose the style of work that fits their personality, preferences, and lifestyle.

Once we get this pandemic under control, the new normal or new opportunity will become all about giving a choice. Enlightened individuals and organisations will enable their teams to figure out the best ways to work safely together, no matter where and no matter when — leading to improved employee satisfaction leading to better work culture and more profits.

The great expectations

Without the right tools, however, the great opportunity could end up being a great flop. This is due to current solutions being far from optimal and often unsafe. 

What businesses must do now, as we’re hopefully approaching the moment when we will be able to choose where we want to work, is to make one last difficult step: throw away makeshift solutions and provide their workforce with tools that let them work efficiently and safely no matter where they are located.

And this is where we come in.

The new opportunity offering – BMIT Work

We’ve put in a lot of time and effort in analysing the makeshift solutions that businesses were forced to adopt. We’ve seen the problems these businesses face, and we’ve come up with what we believe are the best options. The BMIT Work offering is based on three solutions for different business requirements:

●     Make it Work allows your team to work remotely with the tools they already know and use daily. Businesses that choose this solution to treat remote work as an option but are not yet ready to make a huge step away from the typical office.

●     Work from Anywhere is a slightly bigger step, which aims to securely move your solutions to the cloud as much as possible. This solution focuses on the scalability of remote work and treats it as an integral part of the company culture.

●     Work Securely focuses on the safety of your data. This solution aims to work with sensitive data and/or must meet strict compliance requirements. As part of this solution, we will offer you everything necessary to make sure that giving your employees a choice does not, in any way, hinder the security of your business.

Whichever solution you choose, the BMIT team has the right expertise and experience to ensure that your business takes advantage of this new norm. 

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