Distributed and Connected: Helping To Enable Remote Work At Scale

As conferences turn virtual, travel comes to a halt, work routines change and we adopt physical distancing, the paradigm has shifted. So many people suddenly learned that the difference between waking up groggy at 6 a.m., fighting traffic for an hour to get to the office or simply working from home had always just been access to an app or two plus a nod from the boss. Businesses too have had to contend with new realities. Our clients, that leverage gig workers or support flexible work policies, have about 10 percent of their workforce operate remotely. The remaining 90 percent, for the most part, follow an in-the office routine. As these organizations, including our own, were left grappling with a workforce who are strongly advised to physically distance themselves, this 10-90 average is now swapped. Adding to this complexity is that we have to learn to work not just remotely distributed, but unlike the gig workers also find ways to manage inter-dependencies. We have to build an environment where the distributed and connected paradox works.