While many of your points are true and worth championing, I just hope this won’t be for corporations and employers a way to streamline their profits at the expense of the worker. Though it has already started with your second key finding which is of real worry.

By that I refer to the “Uber-isation” of the current society stomping on the the crisis of the welfare states that can’t support universal healthcare and other vital public services anymore due to the absence of the trickle down principle that fails within the neoliberal framework we’re subjected to.

As usual it’ll be us providing for these failures emptying our cash flow down the unregulated privatized services drain, unless you’re lucky your employers includes a healthcare program, that you live in a country where education/childcare is cheap or free and the housing market is in check. So far employed on-site contracts used to cover the former and working in Western industrialized countries nowadays doesn’t guarantee it anymore. Saving on commuting won’t even come close to do anything at that pace.

If we maintain solid contractual values within labor laws and are capable to organize ourselves (unions, guild, whatever…) as physically distant to each other as we are, then the future of remote work has bright days, and maybe it would inspire on-site workers to step up in days were organized labor is weaker than ever and corporations dodge more taxes than ever.

I haven’t met a remote worker working more hours than on-site, it’s proper focus and lack of distraction that allows us to work LESS hours a day and taking MORE breaks than the workplace would even allow. The break variable actually promotes better concentration thus higher productivity, unless we spend time on social media or browsing the web in between tasks. This is what actually fills the 8-hours-a-day non sense in office environments if you look around.

In the hope that the lucky few will be the hope of many more. ;)

Cheers.

K.