There can be no doubt that the past year has seen massive changes and huge improvements in the way we leverage technology to help us work. Although mostly driven by the necessity to overcome the strictures of lockdown, the move to collaborative tools and a work from home environment has gone off relatively smoothly, considering the speed with which it was implemented.

A major contributing factor to this has been the significant improvements in connectivity in South Africa over the past decade, most notably the growing reliance on fibre. Even before the pandemic, the digital transformation of industries was creating increased demand for stable, high-speed connectivity.