Originally Posted by
Baa_Baa
The law of unintended consequence. Many people find that they enjoy working from home. No commute, more productive, flexible when they work, integrate better with family life, and the list goes on, not to mention huge savings in travel time and cost. The place I work with is grappling with only a 10% return to the office, the bosses are upbeat about going back (party line) but stop at insisting on it. Massive savings for business on unnecessary lease space and massive savings for workers not commuting. Good for the environment too. Fast forward 10 years has happened in three months, COVID lockdown has exposed the future in remote working for office people, technology has proven itself as quite capable of supporting business interactions and working remotely, there’s no going fully back to the 100% open plan hot desk (yuk) nonsense, challenge is finding the new normal.