Security News > 2021 > May > Top concerns for IT leaders planning for hybrid workplace environments

Employee engagement, burnout, and reduced productivity are top concerns for IT leaders in 2021 and beyond, as they continue to enable remote workers and plan for new, hybrid workplace environments, according to Wrike.

Last year's shift to remote work compounded an already complex and distributed work environment, one cluttered with an array of heterogeneous applications and communication channels.

The negative impact of this digital workplace chaos on employee efficiency and productivity is set to increase further, as the world enters the new era of hybrid work.

"This first 'COVID-19 wave' of tech investment had 55% of respondents focused on basic, secure communications between remote teams. While those tools are important, they don't alleviate the complexities of collaborating in a work-from-home model, which leads to burnout and major inefficiencies. That's why we're now seeing 58% of IT leaders - up from 17% one year ago - prioritizing powerful collaborative work management solutions in 2021 to help dispersed teams share and drive work in a systematic and cohesive manner."

Going deeper into the report findings, data shows that IT leaders believe there are three key planning, process, and execution use cases that would benefit most from cohesive/enterprise-wide collaborative work management solutions: OKRs and company objectives, requests and approvals, and agile planning and execution.

By simplifying the way work gets done through sophisticated collaborative work management solutions, employees will have better visibility and alignment, make use of agile planning and execution, and realize OKRs and company objectives.

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