Remote Work is just Work

August 2020. The world is immersed in a pandemic, and Christopher, a 23-year-old Front End React developer begins his first work experience at Pied Piper Inc. working remotely.

His mind is being shaped by this first professional relationship, the workplace, and remote work as the default way of carrying out his task.

The new generation of collaborators, like Christopher's, who started working in 2020 or 2021, has a new work paradigm.

For people like him, remote work is not just an alternative modality to face-to-face work, but the way in which people carry out their duties professionally.

Today, two years after the start of the pandemic, there is a big gap between what employees want (remote-first as the default work mode) and what many traditional managers expect (hybrid spaces, and even a 100% return to the office ).

Before the pandemic, many companies were already remote-first (Gitlab, Zapier, Celerative among others), so adapting to the 100% remote model came naturally.

By having this advantage, these companies were able to be more dynamic during confinement and grew in their level of service to team members.

To widen this gap will only favor the recruitment and talent retention of the remote-first companies.

Why?

Because for Christopher's generation, “remote work” is simply “work”. Therefore, it is the companies and the technological tools that must adapt to this default model in the workplace.

Is it possible for Cristopher to discard this normality and adapt to the "face-to-face work modality" despite the enormous benefits that the remote fist offers him?

Will Cristopher lose the opportunity to work with any company in the world and from anywhere despite going to the office from 8 to 5?

Long live ??R?e?m?o?t?e? Work