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5 Reasons Why Your Company Will Never Let you Work Remotely & 3 Why They Might
The most important thing workers want today is remote working opportunities.
Every single one of us wants, and increasingly expects, five things:
- trust
- control
- balance
- flexibility
- autonomy
1. Most companies don’t feel comfortable giving their workers these things
Where we do not receive those things or the perception of our role leads us to believe that our boss is withholding them from us, workers will increasingly search out companies and opportunities which give them all of these things. For office-first companies, this will grow to become a major problem. They will lose their best workers to their biggest remote-first competitors and it will happen incredibly quickly.
The average talent between office-first and remote-first companies will grow slowly at first before a rapid explosion. The reason?
Company 1
- 🏢Has an office
- ⏰time there a KPI
- 🏙️worker, expensive city