At the beginning of 2020, the outbreak of new crown pneumonia has forced most companies to choose to work remotely. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the party and the people, China has taken the lead out of the haze of the epidemic. We are all thinking about a question-whether telecommuting will become a common phenomenon in the future or will it be "short-lived". Xiao Z believes that telecommuting is the new normal under the future Internet model. The main reasons are as follows:
First, low cost and high efficiency
The most direct benefit of telecommuting is to reduce office costs. Compared with the traditional offline office, the office carrier is no longer the "meat" of employees, but electronic devices such as computers and mobile phones. The team does not need to spend a lot of time and money on commuting.
Employees in Shenzhen do not need to buy two round-trip tickets for meetings at the Beijing headquarters, and they will have to delay two days of office hours on the way, let alone take out valuable cash from the company to rent expensive offices. For companies in an economic downturn, savings are likely to be life-saving money.
Compared with reducing costs, the "increasing efficiency" feature of remote office is more prominent. With the advent of 5G, the network speed has increased significantly and the performance of remote office software has improved. Compared with all people working in the same office, the efficiency of remote office has not decreased, but has improved.
When working remotely, the team will use a large number of collaborative office products, such as video conferencing, corporate network disks, and mailboxes. In particular, a suite such as Zoho Workplace packs and integrates the software required for remote/collaborative office, which further improves efficiency while liberating everyone's office habits and style.
Second, remote office is suitable for the integration of various office modes
At present, more and more companies tend to use "distributed employees" to complete tasks. In the traditional offline office mode, all the talents that a company can recruit are limited to the company's office location as the center.
No matter how good a company in Beijing is, it is difficult to recruit good employees in Shanghai; no matter how good an American technology company is, it is difficult to hire Chinese employees directly. Telecommuting has completely changed this situation. Because there are no more geographical restrictions, companies and employees have more and better choices. Companies can find excellent employees across regions and even across time zones, regardless of the office location. And employees also prefer this way of working, thereby increasing their loyalty to the company.
Therefore, the integration of remote office and traditional offline office will greatly enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.
Third, a new business model brings a new office concept
The market is changing every day, and the business models of companies are also changing. More and more companies that provide online sales and online services choose to use telecommuting. As early as 2018, more than 80% of American companies introduced a remote office model, and more than 30 million people work remotely from home. With the continuous development of new business models and new concepts, it is believed that more and more companies will choose to work remotely.