Securing workers beyond the perimeter Although the delayed WeWork IPO has had a troubled journey, the growth of the startup highlights the wider shift in the commercial real estate market as more organisations embrace new working practices. Globally, teleworking is expanding, with a recent survey suggesting that at least 70% of knowledge workers work at least one day a week out of the office. 1  However, for some organisations in areas such as financial services and the public sector, one of the objections against teleworking is security. The fear that remote workers are more vulnerable to cyber attack means that these sectors are remaining locked into the old office model.  Teleworking is expanding, but some organisations xe2x80x93 especially in financial services and the public sector xe2x80x93 remain concerned about security.  Part of the issue concerns organisations that have failed to evolve IT security to match the growth of teleworking. Security tools are also lacking. Securing the remote workforce requires IT or security teams to conduct regular audit refreshes and IT security policy training sessions. This must be within the context of maintaining bestpractice IT security processes, says Scott Gordon of Pulse Secure.

Worker stress in the age of mobile technology: The combined effects of perceived interruption overload and worker control Abstract   Mobile technologies have dramatically increased the number of workrelated interruptions, especially after regular work hours. At the same time, many employees have limited freedom to decide how and when they accomplish their work, a condition that renders the explosion of interruptions especially problematic. This study proposes that perceived interruption overload negatively impacts workrelated technologyusage via workersxe2x80x99 experiences of worklife conflict, a key source of stress, and that this indirect effect is stronger for lower levels of worker control (moderated mediation). Data were collected from 601 knowledge workers and analyzed through Conditional process analysis, which integrates moderation and mediation analyses. The results supported our model. This study takes an important step toward elucidating the role of mobile technology in worklife conflict and technostress, and it illustrates the roles of perceived interruption overload as well as conflict and technostress in IT use.