7 Mattermost | Unblock Your Workflow Companies are now taking a strategic approach to investing in the digital workflow and se - curity technologies they rushed to production to support their remote teams during the pan - demic. Developers now expect their employers to be able to support both long-term remote work and more flexible in-office time. As such, organizations must have a game plan for keeping their workforces focused, connected, and content — whether they’re returning to the office, committing to fully remote models, or finding themselves somewhere in between. How Remote Work Impacts Productivity: In our survey of developers and dev team managers, more than half of respondents said that remote work has a positive impact on their productivity, giving them more flexibility in their workday and more ability to focus. But while remote work can be a boon when it’s time for heads-down solo work, it can also create friction for collaborative work. Survey respondents also stated that collaboration and sharing information were key challenges that kept teams from working together as effectively as possible. All Industries Are Becoming High-Security Industries In November 2021, the Biden administration announced that civilian federal agencies will be required to fix hundreds of cybersecurity flaws and earmarked $1 billion in state, local, tribal, and territorial cyberdefense grants . In previous years, a heavy emphasis on security practices might have remained the domain of government organizations and high-security industries like finance and healthcare. But high-profile cyberse - curity incidents in 2021 led to increasing awareness of IT security vulnerabilities, especially in their reliance on third-party tools; one study found that supply chain attacks are up 650% in 2021. Developers