07/16/2020

What Tech Departments Should Know When Reopening Association Offices

You'll be doing more with less

Over the past four months, associations have adjusted to a “new normal” in which many employees have been working remotely for the first time. And IT departments have adjusted, too, coming up with solutions for remote access and security on the fly.

Now, as some of those employees begin to come back and offices get revamped, new adjustments will be needed. Of course, you know you’ll have to keep everything clean, but there’s a lot more to it. A few considerations to keep in mind:

You’ll be doing more with less. You may need to accommodate a lot of furniture moves and the addition of new equipment in the coming months to account for COVID-19 (coronavirus), but you may not be doing it with much of a budget. A recent Gartner IT spending forecast said that overall IT spending is expected to fall by 7.3 percent from last year, with expenditures on devices falling by 16.1 percent. If that describes your organization, you’ll probably need to explain to employees who expected a device upgrade this year that they’ll have to wait. Simply put, priorities have shifted.

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