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Shaping the Future of Work
With more than half of United States vaccinated, employees are being asked to return back to office. This mean, sitting in traffic and listening to bad radio for hours will once again be the norm. Pandemic turned our lives upside down but at the same time, it opened doors to new ways of conducting business. We learned that commuting 2–4 hours a day is not the only way to do the job. Employees can be as or even more productive, when allowed to work in an environment of their choice.
I know this firsthand, as I have spent most of my profressional career commuting 2–3 hours a day. My managers have given me all the excuses on why they want employees to physicallly show up for work. These reasons include, we want to closely monitor what you are doing and also we built this expensive office and we want you to use it.
In recent news Apple, the technology leader in the world asked their employees to come back to the office few days a week. Apple employees on the other hand are not ready and have started to sign a petition to allow them work remotely. I am sure Tim Cook is also thinking that we spent billions of dollars on Apple campus and now employees want to work remotely.
I believe this whole argument of not allowing employees to work remotely is rather silly and self defeating. Employees should be allowed to work from anywhere as long as they are…
