| I was making the typical hour trek from San Francisco to Mountain View for four years, every day. Decided to move away and started working remotely 100%. Not having the eight hours back in my week was life changing. Habits, health, relationships have all improved. It feels like there are always going to be roles, teams and companies that must work together face to face, if we can culturally shift away from going into an office, it could really improve quality of life for lots of people. For many others it may hurt them as work is a big social outlet. That’ll have to be taken into consideration. I think we’ll see a big shift culturally over the next year as much more of the public potentially gets used to what it’s like working from home, companies may find it really helps(or hurts) their bottom line. This could end up hurting as productivity will be terrible if everyone’s distracted with news on covid and employers associate that loss due to being remote. Ultimately, post-crisis, expectations around how people work will significantly change. |