The amount of remote workers is increasing. Remote workers are typically the bottleneck in business productivity. Remote workers? Confirmed. They're hard to manage. But the overall benefits of supporting a remote working environment are huge. You get happy employees. Happy employees mean higher rates of productivity. And the circle goes around and around.
According to a 2018 Owl Labs report, even letting your employees work from home once a month increases happiness by 24%.
Yes, there are benefits to supporting a remote working culture. However, these endpoints are leaving companies vulnerable. With the average organization's workforce 20% mobile, the chances of a breach are increasing. Forget about deploying patches on time. Delays are inevitable because these remote workers aren't being overseen by automation tools. While employees feel more empowered, security risks are a bigger challenge to keep at bay.
IT needs to augment their current security tools and not just rip and replace them. Current tools are doing a great job by and large – but they’re not coping with the modern workforce in certain ways, remote workers being a prominent one. IT needs to get a real-time capability that can reach all endpoints, everywhere. And security and ops should both be using something like ServiceNow workflow automation, so that they share a single view of what’s patched, what’s not, what machines are out there and what software is running on them.
Take a look at how our customer, Pernod Ricard compiled a successful strategy.
Augmenting Configuration Manager with something that is automated gives businesses the real-time information required to survive in our modern way of working. Remote workers aren't going anywhere. (Literally, they're staying at home!) Let's get a handle on a strategy of how you're going to manage them moving forward.