- According to data from the Cisco Global Hybrid Work Study 2022, only 1 in 4 employees believe their organization is “well prepared” for hybrid work.
- 78% of workers think hybrid and remote work improves work and personal well-being.
Milan, February 13, 2024 – Italtel, a multinational Information & Communication Technology company, is among the first 4 Cisco Gold Integrator partners in Italy to have obtained the new “Cisco Hybrid Work from Office” specialization. With this achievement, Italtel can provide customers with more convenient, flexible, secure and managed work solutions.
“With this specialization, Italtel supports companies that want to undertake an innovative path to make their processes increasingly sustainable, flexible and cutting-edge,” said Giovanni Salerno, Head of Private & Public Sector Business Unit at Italtel. “Hybrid work now represents a reality that needs to be invested in to achieve business objectives by offering employees the best possible work experience, everywhere.” “Over the next four years, the transformation of hybrid work, places, and digital technologies may also impact sustainability and resource optimization through ever closer integration between smart building management, infrastructure, and applications.”
Over the past three years, smart working, from a solution imposed by circumstances, has become a more sustainable, convenient and increasingly in-demand mode of work-life balance. The transition to a hybrid work model implies for organizations to revisit the concept of “workplace,” which does not depend on where one decides to work, but rather on the environments and digital technologies available. Today, the work-space pair cannot ignore key aspects such as flexibility, security, efficiency and comfort.
“Hybrid work” opens up new opportunities to manage collaboration more intelligently. The real challenge is to organize office work according to the variable daily presence of workers, to think about how to manage application security, both in the corporate perimeter and at home, and to make collaboration work best between those at home and those in the office, while making meetings effective and inclusive and providing workers with the right digital tools. With a view to energy efficiency and improved office comfort, another transformational step is to integrate smart building management with network IT infrastructure and applications used by people.
According to data from the Cisco Global Hybrid Work Study 2022, only one in four employees believe their company is ready for hybrid work. However, going back to the previous way of working is no longer an option. In fact, 62 percent of employees agree that the ability to work from anywhere affects their choice to stay or leave a job. In addition, more than three-quarters of respondents (78 percent) believe that hybrid and remote work has improved all aspects of their well-being, from financial to physical and mental. And roughly the same number of employees (77 percent) believe that the support offered by technology is a priority for successful remote work.
