CIOs need to understand that things have changed. 

The workplace has  undergone a once-in-a-lifetime change and now the number of workers who  are working from home has skyrocketed. What the person with the CIO job  needs to understand is that many of those workers aren’t going back  anytime soon. A survey of corporate leaders found that in the future,  82% plan to allow remote working at least some of the time; 47% said  they intend to allow full-time remote work going forward. A recent  survey of managers yielded the same result: 82% said they will have more  flexible work-from-home policies after the pandemic. CIOs need to  quickly learn lessons about the varied necessities of remote work, from  appropriate tools to new styles of management. 

Here are five rules that  every CIO needs to adopt.