Working Remotely. Employers are waking up to this possibility and I predict that the early bird will catch the worm!
Although working remotely has been frowned upon by most industries, the IT sector is a prime example of the viability there of, as they have been doing this for years.
Lockdown 1 forced many professional teams into online meetings and soon we all discovered that it actually works VERY well.
Having had to sit through hundreds of site meetings in my career, I can certainly relate. Those meeting are not always super efficient as some of the attendees (like the client or principal agent) feels the need to over power meetings and will simply interrupt others. All it does, is stretch out the meetings for hours.
Online meetings immediately showed that we need to behave again otherwise there simply is a cacophony of sound. You speak one at a time like in the old days when meetings were serious stuff. You raise the electronic hand if you have to contribute. You can mute your microphone and slurp you coffee as loud as you like without being intrusive. This is certainly my preferred method of meeting.
We all know about global warming and certainly we all know that travelling contributes to it. The white collar work force is in an ideal position to limit travelling and leave that to sectors that cannot be without it. Why in any case do you want to spend time in traffic and contribute to the congestion on the highway while you could deliver productive work?
Office space is a significant portion of overhead costs. You need to have the buildings, the furniture, the coffee, the cleaners and the all too familiar snacks that does little more than settle around your waist.
Working remotely is the ideal solution for many design teams and technology is mature enough to support it.
Lets be responsible and do something daily that actually contributes to really going green.
