Months after Dell warned most of its remote workers that they needed to return to office (RTO) or face the consequences, about half of its workforce has chosen the consequences.

In February, Dell mandated that remote staff choose between reclassifying themselves as hybrid—which requires a minimum of three days per week in office—or lose their eligibility for promotions and role changes. Dell management then implemented a color-coded attendance grading system for hybrid staff.

Even that push apparently wasn’t enough to get many Dell personnel back into the office. Business Insider, citing “internal data on the entire full-time workforce,” reported that almost 50% of the company’s US employees have chosen to remain remote. Among international staff, the percentage was around a third.

“My team is spread out around the world,” one worker told BI. “Almost 90% of the team did the same as in our case there was no real advantage going to the office.”

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For the Cleveland Browns, the hunt is on for a first Super Bowl appearance. For managed detection and response company Binary Defense, the hunt is on for malicious actors on the dark web.

Together, the two make a good team, Binary Defense Head of Cyber Service Joe McMann told IT Brew.

“Binary Defense was founded in Stow, Ohio. [CTO and co-founder] Dave Kennedy grew up in the area,” McMann said. “So there’s a lot of pride in the local area.”

Rush defense. Binary Defense has been working with the Browns since August 2023. The company takes a “proactive” approach to cybersecurity, according to McMann, looking for threats across the dark web. Often, that means differentiating between bad actors and superfans—often a distinction that’s hard to parse.

“We’re looking at things like the dark web for any types of potential activity, conversation around that; we’re looking at social media for the same types of things,” McMann said. “We’re monitoring from a digital infrastructure perspective, looking for anybody that’s doing impersonation for either malicious purposes, brand, reputation, impact, etc.”

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