The ongoing pandemic was a big slap in the face for two categories of workers: employees, who have said to benefit from increased productivity and overall happiness while working from home; and business owners, who have realised that their business can still operate without having all the staff gathered in one place. For most of those businesses, it was a matter of survival, adapt-or-die kind of situation.
On Twitter, I came across Chris Herd who owns a startup called Firstbase specialising in helping companies go officeless. He’s on the front seat of the remote work trend, interacting daily with businesses that want to make the change and studying current workforce behaviour. He made lists of predictions for the coming decade, which are quite thought-provoking.
Many of these predictions are far-stretched and imply a change so radical that it simply would require tremendous effort to see it happening in the next decade. But I could totally see a good portion of those predictions happening in some way or another in the next 10 years.
Here are the links to the Twitter threads, also in the screenshots attached:
View: https://twitter.com/chris\_herd/status/1279791256286224387
View: https://twitter.com/chris\_herd/status/1294590291761037312
View: https://twitter.com/chris\_herd/status/1295781679739686918
Remote work could give people incentives to leave cities that are becoming cluttered and expensive, to live in cheaper rural areas with an improved quality of life (to some extent).
If we are really going to see a massive shift of workers worldwide, hundreds of millions of people, completely transforming their daily lives, there is going to be a gazillion new opportunities for us entrepreneurs.
Shoutout to @Kak on episode 29 of his Kill Bigger podcast where he keeps mentioning the “new normal” (in the most soothing voice ever, listen to the episode to get it ), and remote work is the first change he’s talking about.
What’s your take on this fellow Fastlaners?
On Twitter, I came across Chris Herd who owns a startup called Firstbase specialising in helping companies go officeless. He’s on the front seat of the remote work trend, interacting daily with businesses that want to make the change and studying current workforce behaviour. He made lists of predictions for the coming decade, which are quite thought-provoking.
Many of these predictions are far-stretched and imply a change so radical that it simply would require tremendous effort to see it happening in the next decade. But I could totally see a good portion of those predictions happening in some way or another in the next 10 years.
Here are the links to the Twitter threads, also in the screenshots attached:
View: https://twitter.com/chris\_herd/status/1279791256286224387
View: https://twitter.com/chris\_herd/status/1294590291761037312
View: https://twitter.com/chris\_herd/status/1295781679739686918
Remote work could give people incentives to leave cities that are becoming cluttered and expensive, to live in cheaper rural areas with an improved quality of life (to some extent).
If we are really going to see a massive shift of workers worldwide, hundreds of millions of people, completely transforming their daily lives, there is going to be a gazillion new opportunities for us entrepreneurs.
Shoutout to @Kak on episode 29 of his Kill Bigger podcast where he keeps mentioning the “new normal” (in the most soothing voice ever, listen to the episode to get it ), and remote work is the first change he’s talking about.
What’s your take on this fellow Fastlaners?
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