🧠 Knowledge work: When knowledge work became a major economic sector in the twentieth century, the necessity to have employees work together around stationary machinery, as in the classic factory model, was curtailed
📍Why Co-location Happened: Knowledge work requires collaboration and access to information, both of which are conveniently served when individuals are physically near each other
Companies adapted the standardized nine-to-five work shift into the white-collar world
Goodhire recently surveyed 3,500 Americans to understand the current state of remote work
What they discovered will shock every company thinking about going back to an office full-time
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68% of Americans would choose remote working options over in-office work
85% of Americans believe that their colleagues and other employees around the nation prefer working remotely rather than working from the company office.