While we are unlikely to witness an extreme shift to remote working, flexibility and collaboration are going to be core values to any organisation going forward,” said Knight Frank Africa Researcher Tilda Mwai in July 2020. The transition from the office to working from home was seen as a tedious exercise for many companies and employees, but was soon widely accepted. A number of companies that have been intent on the hybrid model, where employees can work remotely or in the office, are now ditching remote working and are demanding for the return to work of their employees. “A common refrain is that remote work stymies collaboration and innovation because the latter in particular often arises from spontaneous conversations in the office. Probably as the pandemic ebbs away, offices will be full again, and remote working will fade with the disease that popularised the technological idea in the first place.

Source: Standard Digital July 18, 2021 03:00 UTC