As we move ahead toward the middle of 2021, it is always a good idea to take a quick look at some of the biggest industries in Canada to see the direction they are headed in. The Canadian tech industry is one that is most definitely evolving and changing quite significantly at the moment. Here are some of the biggest predictions of the innovations and changes we might see in Canada’s tech sector.
Mental Health Support
With the boom in people choosing to work from home, there has been a focus on how to best facilitate this change on an individual level. Not everyone has taken to this new workday properly, and it has resulted in a need for improved mental health support to ensure that employees are correctly looked after in this new environment. Tools and software to help employers support their workers’ mental health remotely will become well-used in the industry.
Adoption of AI
More and more industries are developing and using AI with various tasks around their workplace. Customers are interacting with AI to help reach solutions, all without realizing it. Within companies themselves, AI is being used to help with processing and workflow solutions. AI can be used to bolster so many aspects of the average working process and can be used to innovate business operations to help make many parts of business easier to manage.
Growth of Gaming
The gaming industry is one that has been experiencing extreme growth over recent years around the world, owing to the remarkable development that sees some of the most lucrative areas within the industry reach vertiginous new heights each and every year. From developers who are working to redefine entire, long-lasting genres, such as GGPoker, to console developers like Sony and Microsoft working to bring the future of console gaming into the present -- not to mention ongoing development on technology such as VR and AI, we expect this growth to continue for quite some time.
Greater Remote Access
In addition to mental health support, many organizations will also be looking into added support for those working remotely. Whether it is cloud support to allow employees to work on the same project regardless of where they might be located, or true remote access of their machine in the office no matter where they might be, there are plenty of opportunities for further development in this area. It is even predicted that we will see a rapid digitisation of workflow that is potentially faster than the automation that might be taking place in a standard office environment.
Privacy Concerns
One of the major concerns that many companies are now facing is in regards to the privacy policies of some of their partners. With third-party cookies becoming obsolete and a drive to instead move toward the collection of user data through other methods, people are relinquishing data on the internet at a rate faster than they might think. As a result, many are becoming far more conscious of who they might be entering into a partnership with, and what these partners could be doing with data that they receive from them. Everyone needs to be a little bit more conscious about where their data could be ending up.
These are five major changes that we could be seeing from the Canadian tech sector in the near future. An emphasis on remote collaboration and improved security are trends that we are seeing on a global scale, so it is unsurprising that they are also emerging in Canada too. Hopefully, these changes will help to rejuvenate the sector, and will make the working day and other operations much easier for the average Canadian to manage.