
During the COVID-19 crisis, businesses and organizations have had to deploy a lot of technology in a rapid fashion in order to maintain continuity. The situation is similar to how a community responds to a flood. When the flood comes in, you place the sandbags down to protect what you have. When the flood recedes, you remove those sandbags. In the same way, once the pandemic is over, companies may want to retire some of the technologies that were necessary during the pandemic, but may not be after.