Workers Don’t Want to Return to Offices. Start Preparing Now
A new survey from IBM shows that, for a majority of Americans, remote work is here to stay
By Jason Aten
Last week, IBM released the results of a study it conducted about how American’s views are changing as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. There are too many interesting takeaways to possibly write about all of them, but I did want to touch on one thing that stuck out.
American’s aren’t going to be interested in going back to work. At least, they aren’t necessarily excited about going back to work in an office. According to the survey, 54 percent of Americans want to keep remote work as their primary mode of work, and 70 percent say they’d like it to at least be an option.
I’ve been working remotely for years, and I enjoy it, but that stat is staggering to me. Is your business ready for this to be a long-term way of work, as opposed to a temporary solution to a short-term challenge? Those are, after all, two very different things, and they require different approaches.
Companies didn’t get much time to prepare for their entire workforce to suddenly work remotely, but it isn’t too late to start thinking about what it might mean for work from home to continue long after the current…
