Do you think telecommuting will become a common phenomenon in the future?

Telecommuting has become a trend in some industries and is likely to become a common phenomenon in the next five to ten years.

For example, headhunting, design, consulting, science and technology industries and other professional service industries.

According to Global Workplace Analytics, the number of employees who often work from home in the United States has increased by 1 15% in the past decade.

At present, the total number of telecommuters in the United States has reached 3.9 million, accounting for 2.8% of the total number of office workers.

Among them, professional services and science and technology workers account for a large proportion.

2. Why? 2. 1 Infrastructure improvement

Thanks to the rapid development of infrastructure in recent years, China has made quite good achievements in improving network speed. Many families have changed into 200M optical fiber, and some even used 500M optical fiber.

Compared with the office, the home network environment is not worse than the office, which has no influence on the telecommuting experience. This is a very important condition.

2.2 the company's cost savings

For business owners, especially entrepreneurs who are starting a business, how to survive in the current economic environment is the most worrying and anxious issue.

If there are ways to help save office rent and reduce the operating costs of enterprises, then telecommuting is undoubtedly worth a try for business owners.

2.3 Distributed Talents

Talent recruitment without geographical restrictions is also a very important factor for business owners, especially for talent-driven enterprises.

Companies like Zapier like to find telecommuting employees, which not only has lower cost, but also has higher employee loyalty.

2.4 employee tendency

According to the Great Big survey, 93% of employees around the world prefer employers who can provide flexible working hours to employers who can't, and this number will continue to grow in the next few years.

At the same time, employees no longer need to endure high rents in big cities or business districts, and are trapped in depressed morning and evening peaks.

2.5 Changes in business model

At present, many professional service or technology (Internet) companies support telecommuting.

Take the nut cloud as an example, customer support, customer experience, products, marketing, technology and so on can completely realize distributed telecommuting.

The working environment can be placed in the cloud. As long as you have a computer and a mobile phone, the effect of working at home is the same as that of working in the office.

2.6 the rise of telecommuting software

More and more telecommuting software can meet the needs of telecommuting teams, such as:

Document/file synchronization * * * Enjoy: Nut Cloud (file synchronization and knowledge precipitation within the team).

Task management: Trello (more suitable for managing daily work or assigning tasks within a team)

Remote Video/Conference: Zoom? (Real-time conference call experience is very smooth)

Remote control: Teamviewer (you can use it to access your home office computer to handle business)

Team communication and collaboration tools: Slack (integrating a large number of third-party efficiency or productivity tools, such as Gila, Github, Zoom and Trello).

To sum up, telecommuting has become a trend in some industries and is likely to become a common phenomenon in the next five to ten years.