Lee Thompson is Managing Director , Australia and New Zealand , for enterprise cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure company , Nutanix . He explains what companies need to do to help employees work efficiently from home .

close to returning to some semblance of normalcy . Offices in CBDs across the country were eagerly preparing to welcome workers back for the first time in months – albeit with new measures to enforce social distancing requirements . Employees , who had been working remotely since March , were getting ready for morning commutes they had almost grown to miss .

Now we face a very different reality

Melbourne is in the grips of a second wave of the pandemic , recording daily infection rates that dwarf those of the initial crest . Sydney is grappling with ongoing community transmission as new clusters pop

In the virtual desktop world , however , the same access is delivered to workers located nowhere near the physical computer .

up across the city , forcing the Queensland Premier to block all Sydney-siders from visiting the Sunshine State .

Suddenly it ’ s clear the remote working arrangements many thought would be temporary are – and will remain – permanent features of the modern workplace .

With work from home mandates extended – in some cases indefinitely – businesses must now consider

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