Author’s Note: While face-to-face communication is currently not necessarily safe, perhaps until a vaccine or effective treatment is found for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it’s worth contemplating how companies might cope in the near-term future with new organisational and operating structures to take the trend of remote work into account.
Models for Distributed or Remote Work have grown side-by-side with the Digital Age. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has forced a more rapid shift towards distributed or remote work due to stay-at-home orders across the globe. With ongoing uncertainty caused by this new coronavirus, companies are reviewing whether remote work could be made permanent, hoping to leverage potential gains in employee satisfaction, more productive workforces and cost-effectiveness. Technology companies, such as Twitter and Square, have already announced that employees may continue to work remotely on a permanent basis. Continue reading “Distributed Work: Making Time for Face-to-Face Communication”
