Remote Workers Need a New Plan
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Remote Workers Need a New Plan

It’s time for some real talk about remote work: It’s getting riskier for your career.


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Bloomberg’s Charlie Wells didn’t want to type those words. Like many, he thrives from home. He’s focused, efficient, and he saves time and money not commuting. He loves it. But he’s also a personal-finance journalist. One of the tenants of the field is not only having a plan, but periodically reassessing that plan’s risks and rewards. His point is that remote workers need to do that now.

Here are three reasons, from just the past few days:

  • IBM issued an ultimatum to managers working remotely that they must move near an office and come in three days a week, or leave the company.
  • UPS is laying off 12,000 managers and demanding workers be in office five days a week.
  • Wayfair executives told staff that remote workers were more likely to be terminated in the company’s latest round of layoffs, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

To Wells, the business case for working from home is clear. A three-year study , co-led by Boston Consulting Group, showed sales at fully flexible employers grew at a faster rate than those that didn’t embrace remote work. But that doesn’t change the fact that remote workers are becoming targets as layoffs mount at big companies.?


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Absolutely, navigating the future of remote work requires strategic thinking ??. As Warren Buffett wisely says, "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." Let's ensure remote workers are well-informed and equipped to make those smart investment decisions in their careers! ?? Keep innovating and adapting! #RemoteWork #FutureOfWork

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I think remote work is good for everyone .

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I would like to give just an honest opinion. If on this moment “someone” on the top decide to change all the economy on profit of the environment, I kindly ask, “Please! Stop the BS with polemic around Remote Working. If it is to make something good with the environment it will be good to stay home instead of commuting hours leaving carbon footprints and all that expensive words from the 21 century. Not everyone have money to move inside the city and not everyone wants to live inside the city. Diesel cars are almost able to change to hydrogen. Electric cars some say that are economic, others don’t. Remote work has to be made by someone that has the mindset to do it and to lead team’s remotely dealing with the pros and cons that comes with. During the covid it was good for the environment, now it does not work. Humans can change but we are not a lab rats on real time to make tests and trials.

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