Did companies provide secure devices for COVID-19 work from home shift?
#COVID-19 has jump-started the world’s largest work from home experiment. Percona, a global tech company with a 100% remote workforce, recently surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults to have a better understanding of whether or not their company was prepared for this sudden change and found:
Work from home:
- 64% say their company has not created a new work from home policy in the last 30 days because of coronavirus
- 41% said they think their company should implement a work from home policy in the next 30 days because of coronavirus
- 82% said their company was fully capable of switching to a work from home policy
- 18% said their company had to purchase new software or devices to enable them to work from home
- 87% said their company provided secure devices or instructions on how to keep your devices secure when working from home
Company travel and conference attendance:
- 56% said their company cancelled attending certain conferences/events in the last 30 days
- 81% said large conferences and meetings in the upcoming months that require travel should be canceled because of the coronavirus
- 80% said their company provided information to employees on their actions in response to the coronavirus (i.e. informative emails, posted strategies, etc.)
- 82% said they are satisfied with the way their company is handling the coronavirus outbreak
- 70% do not think canceling company travel because of coronavirus is overreacting
- 71% do not think canceling conferences and meetings because of coronavirus is overreacting