{"id":41546,"date":"2020-11-11T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=969d7e6341792bd253f8ba37d0b7a5d0"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:25:19","slug":"remote-working-is-here-to-stay-says-ginni-rometty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/remote-working-is-here-to-stay-says-ginni-rometty\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote working is here to stay, says Ginni Rometty"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span>
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Remote working and digital transformation plans won’t go back to normal following the release a COVID-19 vaccine, according to IBM’s former CEO Ginni Rometty.<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0CNBC<\/em><\/a>, IBM’s executive chair said that remote work was “here to stay” as part of a hybrid model of working.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThe comments come just days after reports of a potential coronavirus vaccine with a 90% success rate in late-stage trials. Shares in services that had been heavily used during the pandemic, such as\u00a0Zoom<\/a>, Amazon and Netflix, all slumped after the announcement, suggesting a return to the old ways once the vaccine is ready.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Rometty doesn’t believe that will be the case, saying\u00a0it would be hard to go back to the old ways now the world had seen what is possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I actually don’t think these technology trends are going to reverse themselves,” Rometty told\u00a0CNBC<\/em>. She said that a vaccine “allows us to return to perhaps a bit of a more new normal. But a number of these things in the hybrid way of working I believe will remain, and the digital acceleration will continue because people have now seen what is possible.”<\/p>\n

A number of businesses began welcoming employees back into the workplace after the first lockdown, with the government also urging a return to work to help boost the economy. However, a second national\u00a0spike in coronavirus cases has led to a second autumn lockdown<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The promise of a vaccine is seen as the safest way to move out of the pandemic, but many want a more balanced home-work setup. Early in the year reports suggested the UK public wanted to move to two or three days in office, with many keen not to go back at all.<\/p>\n

Not everyone agrees, however.\u00a0Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella<\/a>\u00a0warned that switching fully to remote working could have negative effects on wellbeing, learning and collaboration – despite his own company ushering in more varied remote working policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Learning, reskilling, onboarding is going to become a huge issue and we need to be able to incorporate the learning content into a workflow that is natural,” he said. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n

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Remote working and digital transformation plans won’t go back to normal following the release a COVID-19 vaccine, according to IBM’s former CEO Ginni Rometty.
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