- Chris Herd is founder and CEO of Firstbase, a platform that helps companies supply and manage the physical equipment their teams need to work remotely.
- He spoke with 2000+ companies and learned that most plan on never returning to the office full-time.
- Employees can accomplish more from home and are happier when they can spend more time with family.
Remote work is the biggest workplace revolution in history and nothing will deliver a higher quality of life increase in the next decade than this. Workers having more flexibility to decide their work schedule, able to operate when they are most productive rather than a fixed day, enables a far better future of work than the one we currently experience.
Organizing work around your life is a huge transition with major implications. Gone is the requirement to beg your bosses permission to go to an appointment, it is the ability to drop and pick your child up from work every day with time in the afternoon to go for your recharging run.
Being handcuffed to an office and expected to live in a high cost of living city with a low quality of life is a remnant of the industrial revolution. The devolution of offices into almost factory-like conditions as distraction factory adult kids clubs is complete. The office has literally become the worst place on the planet to get the isolation and focus you need to do deep work.