The Future of Work is Remote

The Covid-19 pandemic has all but guaranteed our lives will never be the same again. While some of the resulting trends such as more conscious public health standards will surely continue in the future, others like the increased prevalence of remote work have been met with speculation. Once it became clear that the majority of Americans would not be able to return to work, companies scrambled to transfer their operations from on-site to remote. While chaos and wide-spread job layoffs initially ensued, the eventual effectiveness of remote work has been a silver lining during this otherwise troublesome time. What Time Magazine referred to as “the world’s largest work-from-home experiment” has revealed encouraging insights about remote worker’s productivity and functionality of remote work environments.¹ With companies able to successfully transition to remote operations, additional conveniences of telecommuting can also be realized. While the aptitude of remote work differs for each individual based on factors such as the job industry and personal preference, the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have emphatically demonstrated that we all must be open-minded about the potential for remote work in the future.

Convenience of Remote Work

It is not an over-exaggeration to state that Coronavirus has called into question the infrastructure of the American workplace on a…