How Work from Home is Going to Stay Even After the Pandemic

You were going at full speed in your hectic life until the lockdown was imposed. Suddenly, someone put a pause button on your life, and you were wondering what you have been doing all your life. You are working 9-to-5, living a hectic work life to get a raise, not even giving time to your family for whom you are toiling so hard.

A sliver of fortune amidst misfortune. We can call working from home, one such happening. Companies had no choice but to remodel their business model with lockdown and make employees work from home. People worked from home, spent time with their families in this precarious time and even reconsidered their work lives.

Moving Ahead

Almost half the Britons are not going back to the offices even after the pandemic ends. Half of the UK companies expect their employees to keep working from home. It is more so for the smaller enterprises.

According to a poll in the London Chambers of Commerce and Industry, most voted for working from home, and many still were uncertain about what may come.

Working from home can make people feel isolated and even put the work ethics to grave questions. But apart from that, remote working has its benefits both for the employee and the employer.

The cost of electricity and transportation have gone way down.

Now when everything is slowly trudging back to normal, working from home is going to stay. Many companies will be making 5 days a week work from home a regular thing. Some will go with a hybrid model with 2 days of work from home and remaining from the office.

Why is Work from Home such a welcome?

Well, the apparent reason, cost of transportation is cut down. You save time as well. You get time to do many other things that you never could.

This past year, from the sudden lockdown, many fortunate ones who didn’t lose their jobs or lost someone near and dear have plenty of time to rethink their course of life.

Sure, when working from home, you cannot chat with your colleague about the boss’s secretary or your favourite sports while sipping a cup of coffee. But you can spend your break time with your kids. At least you won’t have to wonder about their sudden growth.

For singletons, working at home can be depressing, especially if you live alone. Many have moved on from the docile work from home mode to work from anywhere. You can sip a drink of coconut from the beaches of Maldives and work remotely on your computer. With a working internet connection, you can trot around the globe and work from literally anywhere.

What’s the future of retail space?

High streets of the UK are open. Although not as glorious as it once was, there is enough footfall. Most retailers have shifted to digital platforms and catering both locally and internationally. Digitisation has only broadened the horizon.

Specscart, an independent eyewear store in the UK, is catering to the local and shipping glasses to international customers from even the remotest part of the world.

Although there is a mega shift to online shopping, retail stores are not yet dead. Retail stores are operating in low capacity, but they are still very much functioning. And those working in retail stores don’t have the option of working from home. They are present in the store to help the customers get their needs and help them with their shopping.

Even if the work mode is going to change for many industries. For the retail space, it is hardly going to be. Unless robots are replacing all human work.