As organisations have adopted mobile devices and cloud-based services, as Wi-Fi and broadband have become faster and more reliable, and as collaboration tools have improved, remote working has become easier.
Remote working has also become increasingly popular because it provides a way of enabling greater work flexibility and productivity, saving costs, retaining employees, recruiting people with the right skills regardless of their location, and encouraging a healthy work-life balance.
Barriers to remote working torn down by Covid-19 pandemic
Unsurprisingly, remote working has been adopted quickly by those working in IT, sales and marketing, business administration and management, and software development. But not all industry sectors and countries have been quick to adopt remote working for a variety of reasons, including the nature of job roles, national and corporate culture, and concerns about productivity and security. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed that.
Since the start of the pandemic, most companies have been forced into either expanding their remote working capabilities or enabling them for the first time to return as many employees as possible to…
