What We're Learning From Work From Home
The first half of 2020 has brought disruption of historic proportions to organizations in all industries. But as the pandemic and the reckoning on racial justice play out, many employers have begun reopening and even rehiring. So it’s time for employers to start acting on what the disruption is teaching us, to see what we can create out of it. A good starting point is the abrupt shift of tens of millions of office workers to remote work.
“Six months ago, if people asked to work from home, we’d hear a lot of pushback and questions: ‘Do we have the right technologies, what are the costs,’ ”says Buck Rogers, North Carolina vice president of Keystone Partners. “Now people have moved on to, ‘What’s the best way to do this?’”