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Almost three-quarters (72%) of UK IT
leaders believe that the rapid shift
to home working has accelerated their
organisation’s Digital Transformation,
according to new research from Citrix. Of
these leaders, over half (53%) believe that
it has been accelerated by more than a year.
The data is from a poll of 511 UK-based IT
leaders, forming part of a global research
study of 3,700 IT leaders. It has found
that businesses have been scrambling to
meet the challenge of mass working from
home and confronting new security and
performance concerns. But with nearly
three-quarters of IT decision-makers (72%)
believing that employees will not want to
return to office working, the pressure is on for
businesses to rapidly establish a new model.
As lockdowns are eased and the world of
work restarts, there is a limited appetite
to return to the previous model of officebased
working. Over two-thirds of IT
decision-makers (72%) agree that it has
been surprisingly easy for the majority of
the organisation to work from home, and
three in four (75%) agree that technology
has enabled employees to collaborate just
as effectively as they can face-to-face. But
the rapid shift has also raised concerns
and caused challenges. A total of 74% of
IT leaders are worried about information
security as a result of employees working
from home and nearly half (48%) agree
there’s been a spike in employees installing
unsanctioned software. Tech solutions have
also been causing problems, with almost one
in four (19%) IT decision-makers saying that
unscheduled virtual personal network (VPN)
shutdowns have been a key problem for their
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