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For the last few months we have been told by the Government to stay at home and non-essential businesses were to encourage employees to work from home or shut down until further notice.\u00a0 While your social media feed may be filled with people posting that they are looking forward to returning to \u201cnormal\u201d, the way we have known normal has changed forever.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In the last of our blog three-part series we will talk about employers who have made the definite decision to have a remote workforce with no view to return any employees to the workplace.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Why continue in the WFH trend?<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We are now witnessing the rise of the work from home (WFH) trend.\u00a0 Employers of large tech companies such as Twitter, Square and Facebook have informed employees that they can continue to work from home indefinitely.\u00a0 This has a flip side – in the United States, these tech companies have also warned employees that if they move out of a certain radius of their \u2018usual\u2019 workplace, they may have to take a pay cut to reflect the market rate of their new workplace (wherever that new home might be).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A factor that has led to the work from home trend is that the survey data shows only a quarter of employees are emotionally ready to return to the workplace.\u00a0 The remainder are reluctant to return specifically because of concerns about contracting COVID-19 or there is a personal preference to continue to work from home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With the availability of technologies to collaborate and stay in constant contact with each other, employers have seen that most employees transitioned easily to the new work from home arrangements.\u00a0 Given this, some employers have even deferred their decision to return employees to the physical workplace until 2021.\u00a0 For instance, Shopify, an e-commerce platform for online stores, announced via Twitter that as it is a \u201cdigital by default company\u201d that offices would remain closed until 2021 until the Company could rework their physical offices for the \u201cnew reality\u201d, which included the majority of employees continuing to permanently work remotely.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Hold Tight!\u00a0 What to consider before making a permanent shift to WFH<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Whilst many employers and employees are jumping on the work from home bandwagon, there are some important things to keep in mind:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n