Working From Home

I’m going to go out on a limb where I’m probably going to be all by my lonesome, but

I hate remote working. Not only for me but for society as a whole. Especially during the pandemic, but now even more so. Having to wait on hold while some customer service person handles their personal business in the background. Or having to wait on hold while customer service is en route to or from their destination? It’s too much. Telling me this is going to be the norm makes my heart sink. I know it is a new-age thing. For one, hold times are much longer when dealing with remote customer service. Secondly, I have always had to call the office because the remote worker didn’t have access to the information, they needed to help me. When it comes to me working from home, I don’t feel that I am responsible enough to get out of bed and be in the office at home on time. I might work from home, but it definitely wouldn’t be the 7 to 5:30 I work now. It would more likely be 11 to 4, honestly. I feel a lot of confusion takes place when working from home. There are just too many distractions.

But according to a Harvey and Nash News and events article, The future of work comes early | Harvey Nash COVID-19 has increased the speed of transformational changes, one of those being remotely working. Gone are the past issues of incompatible software and insecurities of being in front of the camera. Entire workforces are connecting through Zoom, Teams, and other video conferencing tools. According to the article, a significant proportion of what used to be carried out face-to-face may be moving to an online environment. In addition, the word remotely will become extinguished altogether, and working from home will just become working

Tech tools have also proven successful during the pandemic, with the exception of a few irritating hacked Zoom video calls. All this means is that the way has been paved for work and home life to marry, and individuals will be able to work in their pajamas and multitask preparing dinner while on a Teams Meeting.

According to the Harvey Nash group, “ technology will be even more central to how business work,” and investments in hardware and software are inevitable. More laptops and mobile devices will need to be purchased. Technology firms will have to think about how to adapt to this change. So that the creativity, and innovation, coming out of the crisis, according to Harvey Nash Group, won’t go to waste.