Our world looks a lot different than it did not even a year ago. As we’ve lived and worked through the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve been forced to adapt to the uncertainty and disruption that came with it. Any time the world faces disruption, change and innovation ensue, and this pandemic is no different.
One such case is the push for businesses to adapt to remote work. Honestly, if your organization didn’t already have some sort of remote-work plan in place—whether that came in the form of allowing employees to work from home one day a week or ditching the brick-and-mortar office entirely—you’re well behind the curve of where modern businesses are headed and what employees expect today.
According to a GetApp study released in January, the amount of people who work remotely at least once a week has grown by 400 percent over the last 10 years. And based on a study by Buffer, 99 percent of people would choose to work remotely at least part of the time for the rest of their careers.