By Doug Bodenham, Managing Director, curatd.
The remote working revolution was already well established before news of a highly infectious – and dangerous – virus began to emerge from Wuhan. The events that have transpired over the past 12 months, however, have accelerated this trend at an unthinkable pace.
In March 2020, there was an abrupt shift from office working to remote working in the UK. Some companies acted before government guidance was issued, whilst others waited for the decision to be all but taken out of their hands. Either way, employees across the country swapped their desks for their kitchen tables almost overnight.
In the early months after the change, employers and employees alike grappled with this strange new reality. Even businesses who had previously embraced flexible working will have found this a daunting task. It is one thing to have one or two members of staff working from home once a week; moving an entire workforce out of the office proved to be far more complicated....