After the hysteria of the time fades and leaders tell their communities it's safe to go out, not all will return to the office.
A change in paradigm is revealing itself to an untold amount of companies. It's uncovering the fact that their employees are more than capable of working from home!
Other names for it are mobile or remote employment, and it used to be that Freelancers made up the majority of its workforce.
The change in paradigm was already happening before the Covid crisis came along. Many companies were allowing current employees to move to at least part time work-from-home hours.
They were also tapping the Freelance workforce with more frequency to onboard new employees or to complete menial tasks. A company might hire a Freelancer for a one-time gig versus having to hire a new employee to perform it.
For some companies, and for obvious reasons, the move to mobile employmemt was an easy transition. Answering phones and directing calls often doesn't take a sit in receptionist now that we have cellphone technology.
A janitor wouldn't be able to do his work from home, but a company might not need a janitor if they no longer need a commercial building to operate out of.
If you think about it, so much of what we do in the office can easily be done at home. Doctors are seeing patients via teleconference. You can have a virtual consultation with a lawyer.
Sure, there are still plenty of tasks to do inside the offices, clinics, hospitals, courtrooms, ad nauseum.
It's still not hard to see why companies value the ability to offer mobile employment. Saving cost in overhead is one reason. There's also time and resource savings for the employee who doesn't have to commute to work each day.
How Much Has Covid Accelerated The Outlook Of Mobile Employment?
I have no idea what the actual numbers could be. What I do have is an excellent case and example. It's right in front of me in the form of my wife, her job, and her company.
To be honest, I almost titled this post 'How To Save Your Job By Saving Your Company!'
After going from a daily routine on a call sales floor in an office to dialing from home, her team has done the near impossible.
Let me not be glib about this. They literally went from having computers and call spaces in an office one day, to having to set up a home workspace the next.
Any of us who have ever worked online should be able to remember the process of establishing your home workspace. It isn't always the easiest thing to do.
We have different size homes and families. Some have kids to deal and some not. For some, work was a way to escape the problems at home. Now these needed to be dealt with.
To be fair during these unprecedented times, my wife's company dropped their sales goals and expectations by a large amount. Guess how they performed last month?
The entire San Diego office where my wife works beat last year's sales numbers, giving the company a profit for the month of April
That right there folks, is how you save your job. I don't know if the leadership at the top ever expected to see those kinds of results. They were already looking around trying to figure out where they could trim the fat.
It's not likely to be cut from the San Diego (home) office!
And that brings the topic back to the original point. Was every company able to perform this way? I doubt it. But the ones with great leadership probably did.
My wife's team pulled through with no one having more than 3 months of experience. She is the Training Manager which shows that even teaching employees can done from home.
In closing, not all work is able to be done from the home setting. That being said, I believe that mobile employment will be a 'stock and trade' of businesses in the near future. Possibly even going forward.
What are your thoughts? Imagine the benefits of having less people filling up the roadways everyday.
What also would be the drawbacks to such a shift in business as usual?
How might such changes affect the cryptosphere?
I look forward to reading your insights.
Happy Hiveing
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