How Remote Work Is A Change Here To Stay
From living rooms and those massive open coworking spaces to the ersatz offices in Starbucks - the number of people vouching for remote work is quietly increasing. This wouldn't just simply change the way we work, but potentially challenge our views on how we go about it and redefine what we call 'work'.
If you're someone who has already made the choice to work from home, it's easier to understand that, apart from a few downsides, you have an improved quality of life. While remote work has blurred some of the boundaries between work time and leisure time, people who have been doing it this way say they're happier and often more productive than they were at traditional workplaces.
Depending on how you measure it, remote employees form anywhere from 5.3 percent to nearly two-thirds of the US workforce - a number that has been rising since the advent of a reliable and robust digital infrastructure earlier this decade. In the most recent American Time Use Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 57% of workers in 2018 had a flexible schedule. Additionally, 42 million wage and salary workers (29%) could work from home, and 36 million workers (25%) worked at home sometimes.
Numbers aside, here's the good, the bad, and the lovely of working from anywhere.