1. First things first
Telecommuting is already trending in certain industries and will likely become a commonplace phenomenon in the next five to ten years.
For example, professional service industries such as executive search, design, and consulting and the technology industry.
The number of employees in the U.S. who work from home on a regular basis has grown 115 percent over the past decade, according to research by Global Workplace Analytics.
The total number of telecommuters in the U.S. has now reached 3.9 million, or 2.8 percent of the total number of workplace office workers.
With professional services and tech industry workers making up an even larger share.
2.2.1 Improvements in Infrastructure
Benefiting from the rapid development of infrastructure in recent years, China has made pretty good progress in improving Internet speeds. Many households have already switched to 200M fiber, and some are even using 500M fiber.
Compared to the office, the network environment at home is no worse than the office, and has little impact on the telecommuting experience. This is a very important condition.
2.2 Company Cost Savings
For business owners, especially entrepreneurs who are starting their own business, how to survive in the current economic climate is the most important thing to think about and be anxious about.
If there is a way to help save on office rent and reduce the cost of running a business, then telecommuting is certainly well worth trying for business owners.
2.3 Distributed Talent
Recruiting talent without geographic constraints is also a very important factor for business owners, especially talent-driven businesses.
Companies like Zapier love to find employees who work remotely, not only at a lower cost, but also with greater employee loyalty.
2.4 Employee preference
The Great Big Survey shows that 93% of employees around the world prefer employers who offer flexible working to those who don't, and this is set to grow in the coming years.
At the same time, employees no longer have to put up with high rents in big cities and business districts, or the frustrating morning and evening rush hours.
2.5 Changing Business Models
There are now many professional services or technology (Internet) companies that support telecommuting in their jobs.
Taking NutCloud, things like customer support, customer experience, product, marketing and sales, and technology are fully capable of distributed telecommuting.
The work environment can all be placed in the cloud, and as long as there is a computer and cell phone, the effect of working from home and the office is the same.
2.6 The rise of telecommuting software
More and more telecommuting software has been able to meet the needs of a remote work team, such as:
Document/File Synchronization***Help: NutCloud (to achieve the team's internal document ****Help synchronization and knowledge)
Task management: Trello (better for managing daily work or assigning tasks within a team)
Remote video/conferencing: Zoom? (real-time teleconferencing experience is very smooth)
Remote Control: Teamviewer (you can use it to access office computers at home to work)
Team communication and collaboration tool: Slack (integrates with a large number of third-party efficiency or productivity tools, such as: Jira, Github, Zoom, Trello)
< p>In summary, telecommuting is already trending in some industries and will likely become commonplace in the next five to ten years.