Work comes home
The shift to working from home (WFH) translated into a spike in orders for products that enable home working. ‘It put the focus on devices, VDI and collaboration software. We have seen a big demand for these solutions’, Andy Brown, Technical Services Director at TD SYNNEX, told us.
While it’s hard to say where exactly this demand came from, Andy suspects it was mostly from companies who were scrambling to equip staff properly for home working, rather than those who were well-prepared and able to make the switch with relative ease.
‘There will be a shift in favour of remote/home working at the expense of physical premises in my opinion…’
There was also a boost in demand generated by key or new projects, such as the setting-up of the infrastructure for the new Nightingale hospitals, he noted.
Will the switch to home working be sustained? Andy Brown thinks it will. ‘There will be a shift in favour of remote/home working at the expense of physical premises in my opinion, as businesses realise it is possible to run without the shop-front or physical office sites.’
As a result, there may be a change in approach to real-estate that will impact the commercial property market, as businesses switch to cloud-based central resources and allow their teams greater flexibility to work at home or in any other location.
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