Remote Is Here to Stay
Significant events have a habit of fast-forwarding cultural progress to the point that it becomes almost impossible to reverse. The COVID-19 pandemic was one of those events.
So many workers were now used to the flexibility of working from home that they simply couldn’t imagine being without it. For example, staff at the Washingtonian magazine walked out when their CEO wrote an op-ed piece that appeared to discourage remote work.[9] Similarly, a U.S. poll from January 2021 showed that 44 percent of people working from home wanted to continue indefinitely.[10] Who would have predicted that response ten years earlier?
When such a significant proportion of the workforce wants something, it becomes a table-stakes factor in ...
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