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The Future of Work in 2022

While many employers continue to push for a return to the days of old where all employees are in the office all the time, new research reveals this isn't likely to happen.

According to recent polls conducted by Citrix Systems on LinkedIn and Twitter, nearly 90 percent of more than 13,000 respondents say they plan to work on flexible models in the year ahead, with the majority indicating they'll remain fully remote.

"Employees have come to realize that work will never be the same, and rather than waiting for a return to "normal," they're shaping a new, more flexible future that empowers them to work when, where and how they work best," said Tim Minahan, EVP of Business Strategy, Citrix.

When asked how they plan to work in 2022, respondents to the LinkedIn poll said:

■ Remote full time (45 percent)

■ Hybrid (44 percent)

■ In the office full time (8 percent)

Their decisions are based on what they have learned through the grand remote-work experiment as to what works best for them when it comes to getting things done. And as comments posted within the poll reveal, they run the gamut:

■ "I find working from home hugely productive (in the hours the kids aren't in the house anyway). But interacting in real time with colleagues is amazing too. Hybrid all the way for me when the rules allow me to do so."

■ "I have saved the company a ton of office costs, a ton on automotive expenses, reduced global warming, increased project success, and increased my family time. 100% WFH is the way to go."

"As our research makes clear, flexible work is not a temporary thing," Minahan said. "Smart employers will take heed and adapt their work models to meet changing employee needs and position themselves to succeed in the new world of work."

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The Future of Work in 2022

While many employers continue to push for a return to the days of old where all employees are in the office all the time, new research reveals this isn't likely to happen.

According to recent polls conducted by Citrix Systems on LinkedIn and Twitter, nearly 90 percent of more than 13,000 respondents say they plan to work on flexible models in the year ahead, with the majority indicating they'll remain fully remote.

"Employees have come to realize that work will never be the same, and rather than waiting for a return to "normal," they're shaping a new, more flexible future that empowers them to work when, where and how they work best," said Tim Minahan, EVP of Business Strategy, Citrix.

When asked how they plan to work in 2022, respondents to the LinkedIn poll said:

■ Remote full time (45 percent)

■ Hybrid (44 percent)

■ In the office full time (8 percent)

Their decisions are based on what they have learned through the grand remote-work experiment as to what works best for them when it comes to getting things done. And as comments posted within the poll reveal, they run the gamut:

■ "I find working from home hugely productive (in the hours the kids aren't in the house anyway). But interacting in real time with colleagues is amazing too. Hybrid all the way for me when the rules allow me to do so."

■ "I have saved the company a ton of office costs, a ton on automotive expenses, reduced global warming, increased project success, and increased my family time. 100% WFH is the way to go."

"As our research makes clear, flexible work is not a temporary thing," Minahan said. "Smart employers will take heed and adapt their work models to meet changing employee needs and position themselves to succeed in the new world of work."

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Application performance monitoring (APM) is a game of catching up — building dashboards, setting thresholds, tuning alerts, and manually correlating metrics to root causes. In the early days, this straightforward model worked as applications were simpler, stacks more predictable, and telemetry was manageable. Today, the landscape has shifted, and more assertive tools are needed ...

Cloud adoption has accelerated, but backup strategies haven't always kept pace. Many organizations continue to rely on backup strategies that were either lifted directly from on-prem environments or use cloud-native tools in limited, DR-focused ways ... Eon uncovered a handful of critical gaps regarding how organizations approach cloud backup. To capture these prevailing winds, we gathered insights from 150+ IT and cloud leaders at the recent Google Cloud Next conference, which we've compiled into the 2025 State of Cloud Data Backup ...

Private clouds are no longer playing catch-up, and public clouds are no longer the default as organizations recalibrate their cloud strategies, according to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report from Broadcom. More than half (53%) of survey respondents say private cloud is their top priority for deploying new workloads over the next three years, while 69% are considering workload repatriation from public to private cloud, with one-third having already done so ...

As organizations chase productivity gains from generative AI, teams are overwhelmingly focused on improving delivery speed (45%) over enhancing software quality (13%), according to the Quality Transformation Report from Tricentis ...

Back in March of this year ... MongoDB's stock price took a serious tumble ... In my opinion, it reflects a deeper structural issue in enterprise software economics altogether — vendor lock-in ...

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 15, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses Do-It-Yourself Network Automation ... 

Zero-day vulnerabilities — security flaws that are exploited before developers even know they exist — pose one of the greatest risks to modern organizations. Recently, such vulnerabilities have been discovered in well-known VPN systems like Ivanti and Fortinet, highlighting just how outdated these legacy technologies have become in defending against fast-evolving cyber threats ... To protect digital assets and remote workers in today's environment, companies need more than patchwork solutions. They need architecture that is secure by design ...

Traditional observability requires users to leap across different platforms or tools for metrics, logs, or traces and related issues manually, which is very time-consuming, so as to reasonably ascertain the root cause. Observability 2.0 fixes this by unifying all telemetry data, logs, metrics, and traces into a single, context-rich pipeline that flows into one smart platform. But this is far from just having a bunch of additional data; this data is actionable, predictive, and tied to revenue realization ...

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