Remote Working Is Not New, It Is New For You

Introduction.

Good morning, one of the big advantages of getting older for people like myself is that 1) you did not die young and 2) you have had the opportunity to learn things in an early stage by 'doing it' instead of 'talking about it' if you are curious enough and seeing life as a journey and discovery of course.

Always with the help of experienced colleagues and friends that shared their relevant knowledge and experience as part of organizational learning and assisting young people in their personal learning process.

Avoiding inventing the wheel all the time and the waste of precious time, energy and money.

You see that a lot on LinkedIn by *** Top Voices *** and 'Innovation Experts' in a number of knowledge domains. My first example: remote working.

Many popular members on LinkedIn including *** Remote Working Top-Voices *** often with many followers and connections are telling their followers that remote working is new. The inconvenient truts is: it is not. It is new for them and their followers probably.

A Short History of Remote working.

Here is a short history of remote working.

• 1970s: The concept takes root. Jack Nilles, coining the term "telecommuting" in 1973, envisioned a future where work commutes could be reduced. Early adopters like IBM experimented with remote work for some employees.
• 1980s-1990s: Technology paves the way. Multinational corporations and banks began using intranets to enable remote work for some managers and employees including in the global bank I was working in including in my own department at the beginning of the Nineties in investment banking. They as we also started to use video conferencing to work together in global virtual teams and to reduce travelexpenses for senior manager ad executives. The rise of personal computers and the internet in the 1980s and 1990s provided the tools for more widespread remote work by solopreneurs, startups, scaleups and SMEs.
• 2000s: by the 2000s, governments recognized the potential benefits of remote work, with the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 in the US being a prime example. The U.S. Census data also showed a steady rise in remote workers during this decade.

What was a much more important worldwide online trend outside of the online comfort zone of the corporate world, universities, business schools and corporate trendwatchers was that thousands and thousands of people across the globe including online freelancers, people working at home (WAH) started making money online including as digital nomad using the internet as main 'job'or as 'side-hustle'.

I started to do that based on my previous corporate experience while working at Corporate IT Strategy in 2001 next to my dayjob. In my case with short e-books, sharing my personal hands-on experiences with my own Lean & Mean virtual organization as solopreneur with at the end 12.000 connections in my unique business ecosystem as a basis of my new part-time online business model.

• 2019-2022: The COVID-19 pandemic forced a global experiment in remote working, or better online working, especially in large bureaucratic companies and government agencies, accelerating its adoption across industries.

Video conferencing tools like Zoom boomed, and many companies and governmental organizations shifted to permanent or hybrid work models.

• 2022- : Since the 'democratization of AI', teleworking has gone into a new phase. Enabling corporates, startups, scaleups, SMEs and online entrepreneus to use different types of AI to become AI-powered. More productive, more creative with the virtual organization as basic structure.

Many large organizations including large governmental organizations, universities and business schools however have forced managers, employees and students to stop remote working or started to limit remote working. A clear sign of the persistence of an old 'dinosaur' corporate culture and management style.

Conclusion.

f you really want to survive The Great AI-Layoff, and 'the death of the dinosaurs' and thrive in the AI-powered economy and be succesful in pivoting your business model towards the AI-powered company including as AI-Powered Bank or a successful AI-powered startup and help you connections and customers to do just that, you have to share relevant proven knowledge and experience with your connections and followers in any digital or face-to-face form on LinkedIn .

That is my personal advice to you. You do what you want of course....