The COVID-19 pandemic has led to permanent remote and hybrid workforces, so organizations must try to transform temporary information governance measures implemented in 2020 into long-term solutions.

Information governance professionals have been in reaction mode amid the pandemic to keep up with rapid workplace changes. Historically, as organizations acquired new technology, they considered information governance requirements around control, auditing and long-term preservation. However, in the scramble to keep people productive during the pandemic, organizations have often ignored information governance to get tools, like collaboration platforms, deployed immediately.

Information governance has become more critical since 2020 because remote work strategies have dispersed data and employees. As the reality that business operations won’t return to the way they were sinks in, organizations must use more adaptive and permanent approaches to address their information governance requirements.