Why your career may not zoom ahead as much as you’d like
Within the remote notion, some organisations are allowing workers to be always remote - never come in - while most others have “hybrid” models where workers are in the office only part of the time. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt speculated that employers will offer hybrid models to get workers back into their offices and then take them away later.
What employers will do in the long run, though, is not so clear. Real estate costs are less if we get rid of offices but, beyond that, is the performance of office jobs better when employees are working remotely or not? Most employers just don’t know, in part because there are many different dimensions of performance but mostly because they haven’t tried very hard to figure it out.
We can imagine that the lack of interruptions from other workers and from the manager could be a benefit, but other evidence suggests that the time spent in remote meetings is actually greater than in the office.
But how about for the employees? There is no doubt that most workers want some type of work from home. It gives them the flexibility to accommodate their private life, it can save on commuting costs, they can work
