Let's Make Hybrid Work
Great for employees and good for business – find out how six interconnected components can empower people to do their best work seamlessly, securely, and productively from anywhere.
The most pressing business issue of the day is how to facilitate hybrid working. Seismic changes in the way people want to live and work, triggered by the pandemic, have implications that are too big for organisations to ignore.
Hybrid working is here to stay
The Ergo Approach
To make hybrid work, Ergo’s starting point is recognising that every organisation is different. Some are struggling to make the home/office experience seamless; others are focussed on making remote access secure and compliant; all are looking for a strategy that’s flexible, because what works today may have to change for tomorrow.
Ergo has spent the last five years developing practice areas where the sum of the parts delivers a flexible approach to the modern workplace. At the core is a new wave of digital technology, cloud-enabled apps and services that can be configured in multiple ways, mirroring different company needs.
We bring it all together and enable hybrid working with six interconnected components, steered by Ergo Subject Matters Experts, who are among the most qualified IT professionals on the island of Ireland.
Strategy and planning
People have voted with their feet and hybrid working is here to stay. Time spent in and out of the office may change again in the future, so the challenge is to come up with a hybrid plan that enables employees to make life choices flexibly, and the business with the resilience to make it secure and productive.
Meet the expert:
Steve Blanche
Chief Technical Officer
Equipment and Devices
There’s a baseline of laptop functionality and performance that meets the needs of most information workers and enables them to work from anywhere – the office, a home office, or out on the road. But mapping roles to devices may be needed for some employees, such as engineers and designers who may need more compute power and bigger screens.
Meet the expert:
Derek Boyle
Head of Hardware
Desktop Virtualisation
Working from anywhere on any laptop or computer may be the ultimate expression of hybrid working. Virtualising desktops is one way to do it, managing applications and data centrally to keep them secure, while still giving employees a seamless experience.
Meet the expert:
John Whitty
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Lead
Collaboration and Communication
Human beings work better in teams, collaborating to solve problems and sharing ideas to spark innovation. Hybrid working must expand the possibilities of teamwork, not restrict it, which is why a unified communications platform like Teams is the perfect gateway for collaboration.
Meet the expert:
Sean McAvinue
Modern Workplace Practice Lead
Security and Governance
Empowering people to work from anywhere is liberating for employees, but an added challenge when it comes to security. The computers employees are working on, the network they are communicating over, and cloud platforms they are connecting to, have to be locked down with layers of protection.
Meet the expert:
Porus Chadha
Information Security Practice Lead
Adoption and Change
It’s easy to forget what a big change hybrid working has been for people, and that not everyone is comfortable with using the technology that supports it. Any kind of change is notoriously hard, especially when it affects the way employees work. Helping them to adopt new ways of working is imperative for success
Meet the expert:
Dani Spenceley
Head of Adoption & Change Management
Talk to Ergo to make your transition to hybrid work a success. Our Subject Matter experts will assess where you are, where you need to be, and advise on the best technologies to bridge the gap in a way that’s appropriate to your sector.
Ergo people bring a business and technology perspective to every engagement. Everything we do is about the intersection between the two, the sweet spot where organisations get to shape their strategy and set course for the future.
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