Work-From-Home is Changing the Future of Commercial Real Estate
Remote work is nothing new. Many employees had occasionally been telecommuting from home or clients’ offices long before the COVID-19 turned Zoom meetings and Slack messages into the norm rather than the exception. However, despite the vaccine rollout, employees are not rushing to get back into the office. Remote work is here to stay The majority of employees wish to keep working from home at least part-time in the future. They appreciate the lack of commute, flexibility, and better work-life balance that remote work provided in the past year. Work-from-home was a success for companies as well, with the productivity of their employees remaining stable or even increasing during the pandemic. Major companies, such as Facebook or Amazon, are switching to a fully remote or hybrid model for the foreseeable future. According to an Upwork survey , as much as 22% of the American workforce could be fully remote by 2022 – not including employees foll...