Many Derbyshire firms may still encourage working from home after pandemic ends

IT support expert Joe Lisney, of Ace IT Solutions, has been analysing recent research in the tech world and believes that business has changed so much in just the last eight months or so, that we will never go back to a solely office-based culture.

He said: “In terms of business leaders adopting and embracing technology, we’ve jumped forwards five or ten years since March.

“The technology has been there for some time for anyone to work anywhere, on any device. But organisations were slow to embrace it. And that was stopping it from being a mainstream working practice.

“Now that all businesses have seen there are many benefits to fully flexible working; it’s clear that the majority will want to maintain that flexibility even when the Covid crisis is over.”

Across the world there have been plenty of examples of large firms encouraging their staff to fully or partly work from home.

And Joe believes that will be reflected in the East Midlands as businesses start to make long-term strategy decisions in the early part of 2021.

He added: “I can see lots of businesses here taking a blended approach. There will be the opportunity to work in an office some of the time. But many staff will be able to choose to work from home for at least part of their week, if they prefer.”