Tomorrow’s Employees Will Work Remotely
Is the employee of the future going to be a young, be-suited man or woman sitting at a desk from nine to five?
Could it be that future workspaces will be made up of meeting space, and the concept of having your own desk at work no longer existing? The notion of nine to five might gradually disappear (please God!), with staff working ad-hoc hours around their home in pyjamas.
Offices will probably disappear and instead mini business centres could spring up near satellite offices, with robots serving nachos all day and night. Increasingly, people will work from home as organisations cut down their overheads on office space and use remote locations as the new-age workplace.
These communities will build up around ‘streetscapes’ with services for workers such as hairdressers and cafés. Workers will only come to the office to have sex. Better technology infrastructure will make distributed working easier. All of this will have a positive impact on health and stress levels.
Changes in the wider context of work will have a great impact on the worker of the future. UK employees will need to be flexible enough to continually work across time zones, languages and cultures. With this new-age worker in mind, many employers are now considering remote working and working from home as viable options in their recruitment drive.
Web sites such as Remote Employment may even take over the world in recruiting ‘tomorrow’s workers’. Currently, around £3.1 million people usually or regularly work from home in the UK and this is likely to double in the near future.
The recent emergence of ‘virtual jobs’ and ‘virtual communities’ is changing the way companies attract and retain skilled employees. Smarter organisations reduce employment costs by adopting ‘remote working’ as a regular employment solution.
The new-age worker’s ‘green agenda’ will increase home working, which will make it much easier for families to combine work and caring responsibilities. Flexible working at senior levels will be more acceptable, which will encourage more men, particularly in younger age groups, to ask for flexible arrangements enabling them to participate more fully in family life at no cost to their career ambitions.
