Most businesses are still not getting their tech and IT working right - and it's causing disruption across the entire workforce
THE SO WHAT
If Logitech can show that late IT involvement in office planning is measurably dragging productivity, the bottleneck in hybrid work isn’t tools — it’s sequencing. Treat IT and workplace design as a single planning surface or you’ll keep paying for underused space and overworked support tickets.
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