8 reasons why your offices will soon be empty

Even just a decade ago, the idea that a company can exist without an office, is puzzling. How can spending time meeting, monitor processes and easily communicate with colleagues? How to build staff interaction and maintain the corporate spirit?

Today, a growing number of successful companies is gradually coming to the conclusion that the above issues are in the past. Thanks to the Internet and modern software, many workers can successfully carry out their functions, for weeks or months without appearing in the company. So can and offices in the conventional sense of the word has not wanted?

It seems that yes. And eight evidence of this.

1. Ready for this technology

New technologies make it possible to connect to any employee to work from anywhere and from any device that has access to the network. Forget the endless sending each other e-mail and work files. Now they were replaced by a new generation of tools that allow video conferencing, voice and text chat, collaborative brainstorming, prototyping, to work simultaneously on documents and more more. Most of them are completely free. In the future, such technology will only grow and become even more sophisticated.

2. By this people are willing

By 2020, that is, only six years later, the main contingent will be working millenialy. These are people who do not need to explain what a social network, they grew up in the era of Facebook, Twitter and Google. For them, there is no distance. For them, there is no need to address important questions only in person. Remote work for such employees is a natural need, and stay in office - sad throwback.

3. Remote work more attractive

Chances are, if you ask any of his friends, where they would prefer to work, they would choose a house or, for example, coworking. The same is confirmed by sociological studies that say that 90% of employees prefer organizations offering flexible working conditions. So that organizations that want to attract and retain the most talented employees and scarce, necessarily have to enter the remote operation, in whole or in part.

4. It profitable businesses

Companies spend huge amounts on rent and maintenance of premises, office equipment, vehicles, office equipment, Internet and so on. By getting rid of these costs can significantly save resources and optimize their activities. Thus, the translation of workers to remote work or part-time, depending on the size of the company, can bring very significant financial bonuses.

5. Employees save time

a work trip and back are a real problem for the vast majority of people. Daily movement of the shuttles, buses and cars do not bring any benefit to people or the environment. If you spend on the road in the same direction for about an hour (and it is common practice), it means that for week you accumulate another whole day that you spend exclusively transport. Imagine that you could spend the extra day for the project, reading, sports, recreation. Comments, as they say, are unnecessary.

6. Remote workers are more productive

strict control supporters it may seem surprising, but many research show that home workers are more productive their office colleagues. This is achieved not only by reducing the cost to the road, but also through the use of new technologies, electronic document management, free work schedule. Remote workers are less prone to stress, more motivated, and much less likely to get sick.

7. Improving the quality of life of employees

Modern offices are unified environment in which people try to fit a variety of psychological and social types. Not everyone likes it. But at a remote work you can choose the type of environment that you liking. Singles may close in the office, or extroverts choose coworking cafe, nature lovers go into the garden. a new type of employees do not suffer in a stuffy office and close boxes, and themselves form for themselves a comfortable environment, up to the country's change of habitat.

8. Huge labor market

More recently, businesses have been forced to look for employees only within their region, which, of course, significantly narrowed the choice available. Today, thanks to the remote operation, it is possible to attract staff, regardless of their physical location. No less useful it is for the workers themselves, who can offer their services to a wider range of customers.

We have listed not all the benefits of remote working, but even from this list should be clear that the traditional office should gradually disappear. Yes, the mega-company is still trying to entice employees free meals, gyms, free massage and other cakes, but, nevertheless, it is clear that the future belongs to telework. We can argue about how her organization, but the prospects of arguing is pointless.

And you would like to work remotely?