Let’s sum up benefits of going remote.
Time and money savings
Woriking from home enables huge transport savings. And when I talk abou savings I don’t mean just money but also time. There are many employees, students and people who need to solve something with authorities spending substantial amount of time by commuting.
Idea that some people spend most of their time in job and then another huge portion of time by commuting is not cool and definatelly leads to higher inefficiency. This time could be spend either by relaxation, which leads to higher efficiency or studying which leads to higher productivity. And higher productivity should be goal to employee and employer, because higher productivity leads to higher wages and profit.
Working from home decrease inequality
There are many people who argue that commuting is not such a problem for them. But actually there is higher commuting from poorer region to rich cities with better job offer. The result is, that commuting has negative impact on poor people, whose situation is already bad and who are trying get better.
Going remote puts people with disabilities and healthy people on the same level
There are many ways states try to help people with disabilities by means of subsidy. But there is even better solution then compensate these people with money and that’s removing impact of their handicap by means of going remote.
The nation with remote workers and students can handle other crisis situations better
It’s hard to say what future brings. From risk management point of view are employees, entrepreneurs and students working from home better prepared for the future. Because there are many situations which can disable or make difficult commuting and live of workers and students who have to work and study presently.