Survey: Most Companies’ Employees Cannot Work Remotely During a Crisis
The majority of employees at approximately three out of four organizations could not work remotely if they had to, according to a new survey.
The survey commissioned by Cisco and conducted by InsightExpress validates concerns that U.S. organizations, both public and private, could not continue operating if major business interruptions occurred, such severe weather, mass illness, major road closings, or public transit strikes. The survey was taken by 502 IT professionals from organizations large and small spanning five industries: healthcare, finance, retail, education, and government.
Only about one in four IT professionals said that 50 percent of their workforce could currently work remotely. When companies do provide remote access they generally do so through company-owned laptops, followed by smart phones. The survey also discovered that the healthcare and finance sectors were more likely to give workers the ability to work remotely than the retail, education, and government sectors.
See Survey: Most Companies’ Employees Cannot Work Remotely During a Crisis, by Matthew Harwood for Security Management.
