“The age of remote work is upon us,” they say. After almost 18 months of lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and workplace safety policies that have prevented the vast majority of workers from going into the office, employees and employers have learned to accept remote work. As the pandemic rolls on around the world, remote work is evolving from a necessity during the pandemic to increasingly feel like a distinctly new era for workers and the workplace. While remote working trends were emerging before the pandemic, they were gradual at best and still faced widespread dismissal from traditional business. Before the pandemic 47% of employees in the US had never tried remote working, now that’s 34% just 18 months later. Even more telling, just 17% of US employees had worked remotely for 5-days per week before COVID-19 but a massive 44% were working from home 5-days per week in April 2021 according to Statista research by Kimberly […]