The COVID crisis has been challenging for many industries and sectors. Does technology provide the solution?

Lockdown saw the rapid move to technology-enabled flexible working arrangements for many and helped relieve the economic burden on many industries and sectors. We asked Paul Matthews from IT professionals to comment from the IT industry perspective.

Covid-19 has presented businesses a number of challenges, some of the first and most pressing being to switch to remote working en masse and to add e-commerce and/or contactless supply models. Clearly technology and its industry experts have played a key role in enabling these changes.

And now, as we work towards the economic recovery and bedding in or adopting new practices needed to operate alongside Covid, technology will again be instrumental.