We have the technology. We only need the management vision.
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One of the greatest worries about the work-from-anywhere/work-from-home movement was that things were rushed, and that productivity momentum was lost. The reality is, though, that we actually have been preparing for this moment for decades, requiring the right blend of technologies and forward-thinking management.
The technology was there — but the forward-thinking management was lagging. It took a major global upheaval — in this case, the Covid-19 crisis — to realize what we had been developing all along.
“The rush to remote we experienced a year ago quickly shattered the idea that employees can only be productive within an office,” says William Stemper, president of Comcast Business.
Through the global crisis over the past year, “We’ve learned that quality work can still be done when we work from home, meet virtually, and even conduct events and networking from…