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safety issues. What is the employer’s high-crime South Africa also needs working over the long-term can have

liability if injury occurs at home consideration, especially as electronic negative psychological effects.

and is the home considered a safe equipment may make home offices
and appropriate place to work in a target. Corporate insurance In summary, there are undoubted

the long-term? An outsourced WAR premiums will be affected and the benefits of WFH, however,

facility will provide occupational logistics of replacing equipment there can also be a myriad of

health and safety measures similar in several different locations will challenges and costs that are

to an organisation’s normal office. complicate matters. Furthermore, not immediately apparent.
home networks are generally more
uTiLiTy And vulnerable than corporate ones. During the pandemic, many smart

COnnECTiviTy RiSk The risk of confidential information organisations made use of the WAR
Power and water outages remain being compromised by visitors or seats they had at ContinuitySA’s various
a reality locally. Providing backup workmen increases in a WFH scenario. facilities to provide them with alternate

options and redundancy connectivity An office environment is normally working space. Going forward, many are
for home users can be costly for more secure, both data and paper- thinking of subscribing to permanent
organisations. WAR facilities, wise, than several different homes. seats in the same facilities to enable

such as those at ContinuitySA, a three-tier, hybrid solution, tailored

provide building-wide backup TEChniCAL SuppORT to their specific needs, that enables
power and auxiliary water supply, While most technical support can be a more flexible approach to working.

thereby alleviating the impact done remotely, in-person support Basically, this hybrid approach would

of power and water outages. is sometimes necessary. Employees retain traditional corporate office space,

working in an office environment can albeit much reduced, with some roles
SECuRiTy And be supported more easily than those working from home and with some

COnFidEnTiALiTy in a geographically spread workforce. amount of time spent in the office.
Cybersecurity is a top risk globally,
and it is multiplied when employees EMOTiOnAL WELL-BEing WFH will remain a feature of a more
routinely work outside of corporate Prior to the Coronavirus pandemic, flexible working world, however

premises and access corporate there have been studies done in the the smart money is on a hybrid

systems and data. In addition to area of the effects of home working. solution that can be aligned with an
cybersecurity, physical security in It should be recognised that solo organisation’s risk profile and strategy.

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