Rise in home workers

A recent study from Virgin Media, has shown that more than 8 million British employees now work from home at least one day a week, the equivalent to almost a third of the entire British populace. The report showed that those working from home bring in £167 billion to the UK economy every year.
The number of hours spent working from home is also on the rise, with a 26% increase compared to 2012. It is expected that this number will only rise, with 58% of workers expressing a desire to work from home. The Virgin Medias study has shown that having fast, reliable broadband has been a key factor in making home working so widely possible. More

Having helpful technology in place is clearly vital for homeworkers, which may explain why one of the industries with the highest number of homeworkers is IT (according to the TUC 'Trades Union Congress' in 2016 ). With remote or home working comes IT Security factors to consider. For more information on this and the ways in which you can manage remote workers please read our recent blog post.

If you're looking to introduce remote working or home workers and want some advice on security and the best ways to manage everything, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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