Work From Home Versus Work Form Office

Companies are sifting towards work from home, Is it true? i can say yes. Most of the companies sending their staff to work from home as the coronavirus started to spread in their countries. Before corona crises work from home was just a unnamed theory, to some extent working from home done by the employee who do not prefer to work in office or the employee who are on some WFH contract or if you wanna work for the company by staying home you "will pay you less" , not consider them as a fully part of the company even this is true to some extent.

With the global working from home day 10th April, we thought we would explore the history of remote work and its trends over time. Remote work didn’t just happen overnight. A number of different factors have come into play over the past 50 years, leading to more people working from home than ever before.

While remote work is one of the most popular term for this particular kind of flexible working arrangements, telecommuting was once the preferred one. Coming from Jack Nilles’ book The Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff in 1976, he proposed a system whereby work was brought closer to the workers.

As we see past 50 years of experience, WFH or the remote work increases the efficiency of the employees or contribution to the companies.It’s easy to see that over the past 50 years improvements in technology and a general shift in working culture have all contributed to the rise of remote work. Most people within developed economies have access to a high-speed internet connection and some form of computer. This allows them to contact and work in real time with other workers in numerous different locations. High-quality video conferencing, direct message tools such as Slack, and applications with real-time multiple contributions have torn down the work cubicle walls, freeing up employees from the confines of the office.

Working from home is also seen as a key method of increasing the number of employees in the companies who are able to work. If once many women found it difficult to work due to more conservative family roles, the present chance to work from home opened up the workforce and allowed many of them to earn.

Working from home not only benefited to the employee but also for the employer. it's directly reduces the cost of organisation by minimizing the cost of space, lowering the stress during working hour, can boost the productivity, employees enjoy perks like flexibility and the lack of a commute.

Big Tech was first to send workers home

Tech giants aren’t looking to politicians to set timetables to reopen their offices, telling most staff to work from home at least until next year.

Google and Facebook have told most employees to keep working from home for the rest of 2020 as part of a response by the tech giants to the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

Google and Facebook told employees that many workers who can do their jobs remotely should plan to do so until 2021. Amazon said its headquarters employees will stay home at least until October. Microsoft told staff Monday that working from home remains optional through October for most employees, though the company will allow some workers to voluntarily return to their offices in stages

And Twitter decided to give up on timelines altogether — telling most employees they can just work from home forever

Microsoft expects to bring back employees “more slowly rather than more quickly because, economically, we can serve the economy with more remote work than people in many industries can,” president Brad Smith said in an interview.

The crisis has provided an opportunity to India's largest IT firm to discard its 20-year-old operating model and leapfrog into a new mode of work.

Running up to 2025, TCS will ask a vast majority of 75% of its 4.48 lakh employees globally (including 3.5 lakh in India) to work from home, up from the industry average of 20% today. The new model called 25/25 will require far less office space than occupied today. "We don't believe that we need more than 25% of our workforce at our facilities in order to be 100% productive," says TCS's chief operating officer NG Subramaniam.

coronacrises bring back an huge opportunity to build trust among the employees, not to say Good Bye.