It’s hard to talk about the global impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on work without resorting to clichés or hyperbole. But sometimes events are so monumental that they call for language that dramatic.
Suffice it to say, for many people, a return to an office is uncertain at best. The paradigm of the office and our identification with it, including all the things we took for granted, has been turned on its head. I won’t say work will never be the same, but clearly we are transitioning from what existed before this pandemic to what will come after it. Simply put, remote work doesn’t seem so, well, remote anymore.
WFH and the Future of Work
If we agree that remote work is, in part, the future of work, we need to think about how to deliver the best employee experience to help keep our people and teams engaged and productive.
It doesn’t matter how great an app or technology tool is if it’s unavailable or performs poorly. With the dramatic shift to remote work, both employers and employees find themselves having to create an office outside of an office — and needing all the support, consistent connectivity, and access to tools and resources that come with it. But most employees aren’t getting this frictionless experience.
Many at-home workers suffer from contention for limited network bandwidth between household members, spotty Wi-Fi, and outdated consumer-grade hardware. And the surge in work-from-home has put a strain on the “last mile” of the internet in many neighborhoods. Without reliable broadband internet connectivity, employees experience intermittent glitches, audio dropouts, and degraded experiences with apps such as VoIP, video, and virtual apps and desktops. This inhibits productivity as employees endure sluggish performance or waste valuable time trying to connect or reconnect and get work done. And it impairs communication when participants in a virtual meeting miss parts of the conversation because of garbled audio.
Overcome WFH Challenges with Speedify
Speedify, a Citrix Ready-validated solution, is the perfect antidote to some of the challenges of working from home.
Citrix and Speedify provides fast, secure, and reliable access to all apps and data that a user needs to be productive by providing connection bonding or pairing a primary internet connection and a secondary (cellular) provider. The pairing ensures uninterrupted connection and a better user experience that prioritizes video, VOIP calls, and virtual apps when you need to stay on them. With Citrix and Speedify, you can easily:
- Connect to all your data, apps, and desktops securely on any device
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with dispersed teams and clients virtually — via video and collaboration platforms
- Create innovation with access to everything you need to work — fast, secure, and consistent
With over 70 points-of-presence (PoPs) all over the world, Speedify users get low latency, reliable connectivity from just about anywhere and on any device (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Linux). Speedify works on smartphones to combine Wi-Fi and cellular data simultaneously. You can use it with a laptop or MacBook by connecting an LTE dongle or attaching your smartphone with a USB cable and turning on your personal hotspot. Your cellular data can then supplement your laptop’s Wi-Fi to give you better, more consistent internet access.
If you want a solution that’s going to improve your work-from-home situation, can be set up in minutes, and integrates seamlessly with Citrix Workspace, then Speedify is the tool you’ve been waiting for. Learn more by visiting the Citrix Ready Marketplace.
