It Took A Global Pandemic To Prove Working From Home Works “Will we work toward developing a new normal, or slide back into the commuter grind?”
. My personal pre-pandemic commute was two hours door to door from my Hudson Valley home to our Chelsea offices. But I was one of a few employees only required to commute into the office a handful of times a week. For those who reported to me and had to commute in day after day, the exchange could be rather awkward — as I knew that they were just as capable of working from home as I was, yet expected to show up in the office daily.
If we’ve learned anything from the past year at our digital media company, Some Spider — parent company to the brands Scary Mommy, The Dad, and Fatherly — it’s that working from home, well, works. We’re effectively communicating, meeting with teams, having face-time on Zoom, and getting things done. Communicating on Slack is not a foreign concept, either. Many of us were communicating on the appOur company had remote employees all over the country before the pandemic.
Hearing how the transition to 100% work from home has affected those already working remotely pre-pandemic is eye-opening. “As someone who worked from home before the pandemic, there are many ways the new arrangement has significantly improved my work process,” a colleague admitted. “Now, everyone in the company understands the challenges of working remotely and has optimized their virtual communication practices.
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