Working From Home

1Entering the Shift

We are all shift workers now.

Working from home, under current conditions, is more than just a big change. The new normal is a shift for all of us, shifting from commutes and cubicles into a brave new world, where the line between work and home isn't just blurred – it's been erased.

COVID‐19 has transformed the way that we work, interact, and live. But the change to working from home was happening long before the global pandemic. Post‐coronavirus, much of work will not return to the way it was. And many workers won't be returning to headquarters anytime soon. As I write these words, it's difficult to predict what the new normal will look like exactly. Whatever the future holds, the odds are that you'll be looking at it from your home office.

This might be difficult to hear, but when the future is uncertain it's up to you to create it. To step into the shift, and thrive, you must create an environment that works for you. The change toward a remote workforce was already underway, even before Twitter and other organizations made the decision to make work‐from‐home a cultural norm:

• A recent Gartner CFO survey (https://bit.ly/wfh-Gartner1) reveals that 74% of financial leaders intend to shift some employees to remote work permanently.
• The same survey finds that 75% of CFOs plan to shift at least 5% of previously on‐site employees to permanently remote positions post‐COVID‐19.
• Based on over 100 million data points from 30,000 users, Prodoscore (https://bit.ly/wfh-prodoscore ...