


“You don’t have to compromise - if you have the right platform and the right solutions, you can enable all the security experiences and mechanisms that you had before, and in some cases, even better than what you had on-premises,” Nunes says. So how do you give them the same security experience that physically located devices provide?

Securing the hybrid workforceĪccording to the 2021 Verizon Mobile Security Index, 78% of companies expect remote working to continue even when COVID-19 is no longer an issue. Here’s a look at some of the major challenges that ITDMs are facing as they embrace the benefits of a distributed workforce, and how the right technology is making all the difference. “And a truly mobile, secure solution, working within the cloud, is essential for everybody now, not just large enterprises.”
Connectivity, powerful performance, thin devices, multiple days of battery life, all of those things are now very important,” Nunes says. IT decision makers (ITDMs) shouldn’t have to compromise security for productivity, or vice versa, in bringing mobility back to the laptops workers use out in the world. That’s because getting work done has three essentials: First, security for devices whether at home or on the go secondly, connectivity and battery life for real-time, longer productivity experiences and finally, on-device AI-accelerated videoconferencing and echo/noise cancellation technology. “Connectivity has become essential to this hybrid world that we’re accelerating into, and next-gen laptops that maintain enterprise security and manageability standards from home (or work from anywhere) are the most important investment IT administrators can make right now.” “One of the key questions that a lot of IT decision makers are asking about hybrid work is how do you enable everything?” says Miguel Nunes, Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The other key question: How do you make that work effective and meaningful from a business perspective? Forrester’s 2022 Predictions with the Future of Work claims that one third of companies will fail at “anywhere work” because they’ll design the employee experience to favor in-office employees and productivity, instead of shifting to the tools that empower productivity from anywhere. Now, IT teams have taken the wheel in the quest to create a truly digital organization that allows employees to work from everywhere, moving in-person collaboration and meetings to online work in the cloud. At the core of this is a company’s ability to adapt digitally: 71% of businesses identified digitization as the secret to surviving the pandemic, according to Salesforce’s annual SMB report. It’s no longer “should we go to a hybrid work environment?” but “how do we make a hybrid environment work?” Now in the midst of The Great Resignation, a blend of remote and in-person work could be the key to survival, with a recent study from Harvard Business finding that over 80% of professionals prefer a hybrid work environment.
