Following a global, 17-month experiment in remote employment, it’s looking increasingly like America’s office-centric work culture is never coming back. The tools that allow us to work from anywhere have finally been adopted on a mass scale, and many employees say they hope to retain the option to WFH long after the pandemic fades into a fuzzy memory.
A report published in March 2021 found that 73 percent of employees want flexible work arrangements going forward. Many businesses are heeding that call; major tech players such as Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox, for instance, say they’ll allow some employees to continue working from home a few days a week. Twitter says its workers can dial it in indefinitely. Nationwide Insurance, Ford Motor Co., Target, and many others have announced plans to offer location flexibility to certain employees going forward.
