See attached This is the COVID work from home, hybrid, full office work you have done earlier. Each reply must be at least 1 paragraph and 100 words in overall l

This is the COVID work from home, hybrid, full office work you have done earlier.

Each reply must be at least 1 paragraph and 100 words in overall length.

Each post must address the original post and can either agree or disagree with the original

poster’s position. As with the original post – support your arguments, but you are only required to

have 1 supporting argument and cite at least 1 external source for this reply.

Statement1:

I work as an Information Technology Specialist at a small community college, and I remember

that at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, my employer, like many organizations, was

scrambling to implement its continuity of operations. Fortunately, we were in a good position, as

I had been charged with a project in 2014 to design, develop, and implement a technology known

as virtual desktop infrastructure, or more commonly known as VDI. I won’t go into all of the

geeky technical details, but basically, VDI allows one to access their work-provided desktop,

files, drive mappings, the whole nine yards, from anywhere, whether it be on premises at one’s

employer or from one’s home. All an employee needs is internet access.

Once we transitioned to work-from-home mode, I quickly realized that I missed the daily face-

to-face interactions with my peers and students. Also, as the administrator of our VDI system, I

realized many needed direct supervision as I could see when employees logged in as well as

when they logged out. It was very easy to tell who was dedicated and who was not. Make no

mistake, I wasn’t snooping, but rather, I had to monitor resources to make sure our system had

high availability.

While remote work offers many benefits to employees as well as employers, such as increased

freedom and flexibility, a better work-life balance, and dramatic cost reductions for businesses

(Kitazawa, 2022), based on my personal experiences, I believe a hybrid work model is a better

solution for both employees and employers.

A total remote work-from-home policy presents challenges such as scheduling and coordinating

work across teams, providing opportunities for managers to praise and offer motivation, and

allowing managers to detect when to intervene with employees who are having problems

(Kitazawa, 2022).

Many companies believe that remote work does not promote or maintain an organization’s

culture or allow for effective employee management (Taplin, 2023). While many believed,

during the pandemic, that remote work was the way of the future, many tech companies are no

longer embracing a total remote work policy. Many organizations are realizing that it is difficult

to monitor the job development skills