{"id":17788,"date":"2020-07-16T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=17788"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:26:40","slug":"future-of-work-95-are-now-comfortable-with-extensive-remote-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/fow\/future-of-work-95-are-now-comfortable-with-extensive-remote-work.html","title":{"rendered":"Future of Work: 95% are Now Comfortable with Extensive Remote Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While 69% of companies were not ready for extensive remote work when Covid-19 hit, it turns out 95% of business leaders are now comfortable with employees working remotely according to a RiverBed future of work survey<\/a>. In fact, after Covid-19 is over, there is a 50% increase expected meaning one-quarter of the workforce will work remotely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is people think Covid-19 will eventually be “over.” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interestingly, almost all the technical issues as a result of teleworking have to do with the network being slow or disconnects. Then there are social issues – people have increased anxiety and stress for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a result of all this teleworking, companies are making a big push to update their remote working tools, networks and of course, they are upping their cybersecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many of us have heard before; Covid-19 has accelerated digital transformation and 61 percent of leaders will be making additional technology investments in the next 12 months, with 31 percent describing this expansion as significant.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest challenge for companies going forward will be getting workers back into the office. Beyond the liability issues of someone catching Covid-19 in the office, there is the competitive situation. Much of Silicon Valley is allowing workers to stay home meaning competing for top talent means competing with Valley policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies will have to grapple with how to keep people motivated as they work from their homes and how to have meetings which inspire participants ina n effort to extend their corporate culture into people’s homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time, many are upgrading their living arrangements to deal with extensive bouts of “sheltering in place.” This will likely help with morale as it is a challenge to stay motivated with your loud family in the background while you’re stuck in your tiny Manhattan apartment. This is part of why there is a flight to the suburbs in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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