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.
