Woman working remotely from her sunroom overlooking the water. An intelligent workspace can connect all your business systems, applications and IoT- edge systems to a remote worker. (Photo: Kristin Wilson/Unsplash)

There's enough evidence out there to suggest that work from home is here to stay. Collaboration tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams witnessed an explosion of downloads, and several people are likely to remain hooked. A Gartner survey revealed that 74% of CFOs intend to shift at least 5% of their employees permanently to remote work. Even worker preferences appear to be changing. In a Gallup poll, 59% of U.S. workers who moved to remote work on account of the pandemic indicated they would like to continue working from home even after the COVID-19 crisis ends.

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