Free Thinking Peeps,

Coronavirus and Remote Working
We have started working remotely at work. My friends and family have told that they are too. My professor brother in Philadelphia said he is teaching remotely. My daughter in college in NYC is told to attend lectures online from the dorm. The entire University of Virginia is going online until further notice.

An Unexpected Good Outcome
I think this nationwide forced exercise is going to reveal that remote working can work, can save huge costs and more employers will adopt this quicker than thought earlier.

Disaster Recovery wants Remote Working
Disaster Recover planning wants more and more employees to work remotely. Cloud servers are preferred to Data Centers. Everybody gets laptops at work these days. Work quantity measuring software are in place that measures work done. For examples calls taken, bookkeeping completed etc.

Checkout Sources of Remote Working
Checkout [upwork.com]. This is where the world is going. If you have any sellable skills such as graphics, bookkeeping, web-design, computer programming, project documents or any other skills that can be performed remotely, employers and small businesses are looking for you. Create a profile and give it a test. I got 95% of my business work done in 10 years on this platform when it was elance.com and freelancer.com. Upwork acquired elance.com. I worked with consultants in Russia, India, China, Malaysia and Pakistan. Work was done using Skype, Jira and TeamViewer. It worked smoothly and I did not meet any of the 60 consultants except one.

The Future is Remote Working
This is employers' dream come true. What a deal! Ask employees to do work on employees Internet, their utilities, their space and employers can get rid of costs of office space, parking, cafeteria etc. I think we all will see remote working across the land within the next 3 to 5 years.

The Future of Downtown
Since the industrial revolution, we have been going to the places of employers either to mills, factories or to shiny buildings in suits. That has been our career dream. As a results downtowns flourished with offices where everyone rushed every morning to go to work. It is a congested mess and nobody can live where they work. The places of work became expensive due to commercial real estate demand. I think remote working will dismantle downtown as we know them. But that is a whole different topic.

What do you think about Remote Working?