No more of those lingering coffee breaks or time spent idly standing around the office cooler. Businesses have discovered that remote workers will at times work more than they might have done so while in a normal office environment. Those that earlier contended that remote workers would be slackers have learned that the opposite oftentimes occurs. That has been the prevailing wisdom.Īcross the board nowadays, there is a realization that working remotely can indeed be productive. The expectation was that to do your job and also advance your career pursuits, you had to come to the office, and you had to physically interact in-person. Even asking to do so was oftentimes a verboten act and could stall your career. Before the pandemic, very few workers were allowed to do their jobs remotely. The opportunity to work remotely has nearly always been a slim chance possibility, at least up until the advent of the pandemic. Perhaps one of the biggest impediments was the overall perception of remote work and also the downcast view of those that sought to work remotely.

Today’s telecommuting technology is plentiful, inexpensive, and easily utilized, which is a sea change from the way that things used to be (in the past, it was expensive, worked poorly, and unfortunately became a tough barrier to overcome).

Couldn’t you work from home? This seemed entirely plausible. Leaning a bit back in your dull and overworn office chair, you thoughtfully reasoned that there was no valid basis for requiring you to come to the office.

Meanwhile, maybe you have repeatedly and persistently had quiet dreams of chucking the daily grind of being in an office.

Zoom towns