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Something to Consider: Remote Working; Be Careful What You Wish For


Something to Consider July 2020 3

When the COVID crisis first hit, a huge percentage of us upped and left our desks and office spaces behind and have been working from home for the past few months, in various stages of lockdown around the world, with mixed reviews.
The benefits of working from home have always been highlighted and touted a lot more over the past few months. Now 54% of adults want to work remotely most of the time after the pandemic, according to a new study from IBM.
But we like to take the “healthy sceptic” view at Consider, and look through all the available lenses. We believe there may be some unintended consequences in the heightened appeal of home working.
We’ve put together some thoughts on work life balance, zoom fatigue, an employers perspective and irreplaceable in-person relationship building.
You can find it here
Let us know your thoughts and your opinion on the debate.
Our ‘Something To Consider’ snippets are framed as small, digestible, ‘dashes of insight’ around the pillars of what we define as “World Class Finance” – Process Optimization, Financial Control and Compliance, and Risk Assurance, all underpinned by technology enablement and integration.