Analysis by techconsult: Hybrid Work: How to Change the World of Work

Every employee is a knowledge worker – this motto is based on the growing importance of data. A CFO works just like a marketing expert. That’s why companies need to provide their workforce with secure access to high-quality data anytime, anywhere.

Because even after the pandemic, colleagues in the office will not work from nine to five again. A study conducted by techconsult in collaboration with Fujitsu documents how German companies run hybrid business. Decision makers from more than 200 companies, mainly responsible for information technology, participated in the event.

First of all, the advantages are clear: brain workers are more productive if they can also contribute their ideas in the evening at the kitchen table using collaborative solutions. The demand for a better work-life balance can also be fulfilled more easily in this way. This increases employee loyalty, especially in times of shortage of skilled workers.

24 percent of companies say they have already introduced flexible and permanent workplace concepts. Another 56 percent are already beginning to switch to hybrid business models, and 14 percent are still in the planning stage. Only a minority of 6 percent (still) stick to the traditional workplace.

But IT decision makers rightly see challenges in terms of security, services and operations. Because what does “mixed work” mean? For more than nine out of ten participants, data protection and secure access to data — as well as process digitization — top the list (all 93 percent are mentioned). This is followed by new demands for flexibility, flex-work, intuitive use of apps, and navigation (between 89 and 82 percent).

In practical terms, this means that companies first analyze the needs of their employees (56 percent). They modify organizational processes and structures (53/49 percent). This is not possible without training and education (45 percent are stated).

What does that mean technologically? First of all, the reference model changes. 90 percent of those surveyed put New Work directly connected to the cloud. Here are some numbers: 43 percent are moving more workloads to the private cloud, 37 percent use hybrid cloud and 33 percent use public cloud. Analysts from techconsult are convinced: “As the workplace changes, cloud technologies will continue to establish themselves in businesses.”