COVID-19, the worlds biggest remote working experiment is underway. As Europe goes into lockdown and the rest of the world prepares to do the same, millions of office workers will be attempting to work from home. Tens of thousands of companies will experience what it is like to have no physical office at all. While there aren’t many “winners” in a situation like this, those involved in offering flexible working services are seeing hundreds of millions of people thrust into an involuntary remote working trial. All kinds of businesses were already exploring flexible working as a potentially interesting option for some staff, some of the time, with obvious convenience and potential productivity gains. However, when the dust settles on this global work-from-home experiment, flexible working may be seen as necessary for the future survival of companies — not just because this virus will not be the last, which it won’t, and not just because stakeholders […]