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Is remote work becoming today’s workplace standard?

May 14, 2024

Business Continuity

Is remote work becoming today’s workplace standard? Let these recent statistics from LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index help answer that question:

Just 10% of U.S. job postings at the end of last year offered fully remote positions.
Yet, those postings received nearly half of all applications, translating into remote roles receiving 5x the share of applications than other types of jobs.
About 60% of the respondents to this same study preferred completely remote or hybrid positions to working full-time in the office.

Two conclusions from this data are clear: Remote work will continue at unprecedented rates indefinitely. And leaders who want to compete for workers in the national talent pool should at minimum prepare to support hybrid models. Embracing these findings increases the importance of your backup and disaster recovery (BUDR) strategy.

Why? Because increasing the proportion of remote work also elevates operational cybersecurity risks.

How to cope? As a top-tier IT managed services provider, we recommend keeping your information safe, intact and recoverable by:

Maintaining a regular local image backup of operating systems, applications and databases
Generating and storing an offsite backup daily as protection against failures at facilities
Sustaining this hybrid BUDR configuration to enable rapid restoration in the wake of a cyber disaster like a ransomware breach

We have BUDR experience and expertise accumulated from assisting clients across an array of industries. How can we apply this knowledge to your business?