Has remote working impacted capacity planning?

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Vice President of Software Development in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

In general not. It remained the same. However, due to pandemics, the availability of the individual is non-predictable. So we ended up having other team members pick the load and many times moved the target. There is a time in which we all are trying to adjust to remote working which was new, we ended up working a little more to keep up as we are not there performing yet. However, with a couple of years gone, folks are adjusted and acclimatized to this kind of working and are quite performing.

Chief Technology Officer in Education3 years ago

My entire career has been working with some team members that were remote so the transition to remote work was pretty seamless for me.  I've never treated in office and remote employees any differently in capacity planning.

C-Suite in Construction3 years ago

Yes.  It has mildly impacted capacity planning.   In our new environment we have less in office seats and less in-office work loads. More laptops requested. More physically dispersed security issues to take care of…

VP of Engineering in Software3 years ago

Somehow it did impact capacity planning, but not capacity itself. Planning is made harder by not having fast direct contact with personnel, making planning harder. However, having no or reduced commutes, everyone seems more flexible on their work hours making capacity more optimized.

Earlier CIO in Manufacturing3 years ago

Yes.  It has impacted capacity planning.  In a hybrid working model, number of seats in office gets reduced.  Last mile bandwidth consumption is reduced.  Power consumption within the office gets reduced.  In case, you have a firewall which filters only external traffic and not internal traffic, the load on the firewall goes up.  More of BYOD gets used, relevant security licenses have to be procured.  More of laptops gets used as against desktops.  Remote access control tools have to be procured.  Security monitoring has to be enhanced as more and more employees access the servers remotely

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