The cat’s out of the bag…

While this snapshot of WFH figures will have changed since 19 July when the mandate for ‘working from home where possible’ was lifted, the trend is that more businesses, in consultation with employees, are setting up hybrid working: a blend of working in the office and working at home.

This is backed up by a recent paper from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Embedding new ways of working post-pandemic, which notes that around 40% of employers said they expect more than half of their workforce to work regularly from home (after the pandemic has ended). In addition, the 65% of companies that barely offered any opportunities to work at home before the pandemic, is expected to fall to around 37%.

Whichever way you interpret the figures, these changes in attitude represent a significant shift. Some businesses are well prepared for changed ways of working; others have been catching up over the past 20 months; many have still to catch up.

What’s a priority?

Data protection is still key – the legal requirements and responsibilities of looking after confidential customer and colleague information have not gone away because of the coronavirus.

At Restore Datashred we understand that there’s a wide variety of roles and sectors who are likely to be working with a foot in both camps, both now and into the future, including those in the education, manufacturing, and banking sectors. Some, like those in the recruitment industry, may be experiencing a particular spike in workload from a tsunami of vacancies that need filling, resulting in ‘paper overload’ and frustration at not being able to manage it efficiently across in-office and at-home locations.

Let us help.

Over the past year or more, Restore Datashred has played a part in keeping data protection systems rolling with our Home Shred services. Allied with regular or irregular collections from offices, warehouses or wherever your work is, we can build a complete highly effective, highly secure confidential waste disposal system for all your organisation’s obsolete confidential paper waste – providing secure shredding, no matter how frequently you are located in one place or another.

Here’s how Home Shred services work

1. Simply go to homeshred.restore.co.uk and order either an under-desk box or a sack that we will deliver to you, via DHL, within 48 hours.
2. Fill the box or sack with confidential paper waste and seal when full.
3. Arrange a Restore Datashred collection through your customer portal login.
4. Our Secure Collection Operatives will pick up your boxes or sacks and return them to our secure shredding centre.
5. Same-day destruction in our shredding machines – box and confidential contents – and 100% off for recycling.
6. We issue you a Certificate of Destruction.

It’s a no-fuss, no-mess solution with built-in audit trail and a proof of destruction for every single transaction.