Working remotely – oh really!!!!!
Outside of travel cost & travel fatigue no one really knows the net productivity loss of remote working in product & service industry. Under the disguise of flexibility, safety and cost, we have let go the opportunity of effective teaming & networking.
Virtual networking beyond a small percentages point is a joke and there is always a comfort level in collaboration when you add a “hand shake” in between. Moonlighting and shadow working will soon become a way of life and data security will be one of the biggest causality of new ways of working. We have not even started to talk about the virtues of health hazard we now confront.
Remote working should co-exist as an option but on-premise working should never enter the dooms day phase as it is being advocated today. It is appalling that many many office premises have shut their shop permanently & have started advertising all their job requirements as “remote”. Absolutely remote working has merits but none so great that it can over write benefits of collocation.
Over the long run a remote only set up is recipe for disaster waiting to happen.
Posted: March 2nd, 2023 under Blogs.
Comments: none