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Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting global distributed workforces, today announced a redesign of the Remote platform used by thousands of companies to employ and pay tens of thousands of workers around the world. The new updates increase transparency and streamline workflows for businesses building global teams.

COMPANY NEWS Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting global distributed workforces, today announced a redesign of the Remote platform used by thousands of companies to employ and pay tens of thousands of workers around the world. The new updates increase transparency and streamline workflows for businesses building global teams.

As organisations think differently about what the future of work looks like, a corresponding shift in the underlying - enabling - technology is also underway.

GUEST OPINION by Oshadha Ranaweera, Manager for Connectivity Services at Somerville:  Keen observers of future work strategies may have noticed a subtle but important shift in the narrative of discussions in the space in recent months.

As organisations think differently about what the future of work looks like, a corresponding shift in the underlying - enabling - technology is also underway.

GUEST OPINION by Oshadha Ranaweera, Manager for Connectivity Services at Somerville:  Keen observers of future work strategies may have noticed a subtle but important shift in the narrative of discussions in the space in recent months.

As Australia and New Zealand forge ahead in 2021 and mark a full year of remote work for many organisations, it is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation globally and changed the future of work — likely permanently.

GUEST OPINION: The unprecedented events of 2020 had a profound impact on industrial enterprises worldwide, forcing companies to rapidly pivot to a distributed workforce model. This sudden shift significantly increased reliance on remote-access connections, while accelerating digital transformation and making strong, purpose-built industrial cybersecurity increasingly essential.

Global security vendor Fortinet and NEC Australia have partnered to launch a managed cloud virtual private network (VPN) which they say is aimed at meeting the demands of the modern, distributed workforce.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION: As Australian businesses adapt to the changing dynamics of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the unprecedented shift toward remote working is creating a mass exodus of employees out of branch offices into their homes. Employees are quickly having to adapt to communicating and collaborating in new ways to maintain business productivity.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION* by Adam Fuoss, vice president technical sales Silver Peak: As Australian businesses adapt to the changing dynamics of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the unprecedented shift toward remote working is creating a mass exodus of employees out of branch offices into their homes. Employees are quickly having to adapt to communicating and collaborating in new ways to maintain business productivity.