Work From Anywhere

CHAPTER 8THE ADVENTURES THAT AWAIT

Many teams who have undertaken the white‐knuckled roller‐coaster ride of moving overnight from co‐location to hybrid or distributed work could be forgiven for taking a breather after the madness and disruption.

Of course, people in those companies that had already started their transformation in the years leading up to the COVID‐19 upheaval likely experienced a slightly easier transition — and yet, many still reported some challenges in shifting across to a new way of work.

Regardless of your team's status prior to March/April 2020, and even if your team formed after this period of time, the opportunity for significant change still awaits. Huge budgets are being invested in R&D around platform development to support distributed work practice, and we've seen a decade's worth of advancement in a few months because of a global necessity.

While the coming years will confirm or disprove many hypotheses around the future of work, some strong arguments exist for the continued adoption of work from anywhere (WFA) methods and for hybrid teams to remain as the norm. The choice it provides, the productivity it encourages, and the ultimate ability it provides to dive into and answer the big question we posed at the start of this book: what can work be?

Bigger macro trends such as employee demand for autonomy over the work environment will be too big for ...