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In this COVID 19 pandemic, work from home has become
the new norm for the country’s IT workforce. Some might find work from
home convenient and comfortable but the responsibility of employees
increases as they now have to follow more discipline and learn new work
etiquette. One silly mistake of yours can leave your organisation or at
least your team in jeopardy, especially because everyone is working from
home and damage control has become tough. Given below are a few
technical mistakes that work from home employees must avoid.
Using insecure internet connection
Hackers are now targeting home networks and you might have critical
information that must not be leaked at any cost. This should be your
first priority to work on a secure network. If you can arrange for a VPN,
that is the best; otherwise try to install a firewall to avoid any
potential cyber attack while you are working from home. |
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Saving official work on personal Google Drive or
email...
There is a saying, “keep your work away from home”. Well, that doesn’t
set completely true in the current scenario but at least do not save
your official work on your personal Google Drive or email account. Thsi
can accidentally leak the data and lead to dangerous consequences in
future. |
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Surfing the internet for personal stuff on the
same browser...
It is important that you use another browser or private browsing mode
for personal internet surfing. The IT team in most organisations keeps
tab on the information relieved and received from an official system.
This may create embarrassing situations for you. |
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Keeping personal data on office laptop
For the same good reason stated above, it is highly advisable that you
do not store your personal stuff on a work computer. Additionally, there
are chances that you need to submit that laptop to the IT department and
get a new one any day you join the office. If utmost necessary, then
keep your personal data in a separate folder and mark it with personal
stuff tag. |
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Keeping your computer unattended and unlocked
If you have kids at home, you would not want your kids to send random
emails or turning on a video chat or typing garbage in a presentation
you have been working for hours, This could be the biggest mistake of
your life to keep your work computer unattended and unlocked.
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Sharing office laptop with other family members
Be it your spouse, your sibling, you kid, or other family member, do not
share your office laptop with anyone for whatever reason. There are
important files and stuff that should be discrete to you only and the
traces of the other persons work can get your system compromised. In
most cases, you can get penalised for this when you are back in the
office.
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