Pundits are predicting that even after the COVID-19 pandemic is ultimately brought under control — which might not occur for many more months — work-at-home arrangements will be more common than before the pandemic.
“While the experience of working at home during the crisis may not have been ideal as whole families sheltered in place, it will give people a taste of what could be. The genie is out of the bottle and it’s not likely to go back in,” predicts Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics (a California-based research and consulting firm). She estimates that 25% to 30% of the workforce will be working from home multiple days a week by the end of 2021.
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