The phrase “Remote work” has been hijacked to mean Work from Home

Remote work does not mean WFH, it means Work from Anywhere (WFA)

Here are a few other things it means: 🤑Remote work means not being handcuffed to an expensive city with a high cost of living and little disposable income left over

In the last 2 years, I've spoken to more companies than anyone else in the world about the future of work

Here are the 21 most important things I've learned: 🏢 Office Death: companies are letting leases expire and planning to cut office space by 50-70%

No company intends to have enough space for 100% occupancy. They will expect every worker to operate remotely 2-4 days a week

Over the last 2 years, I’ve spoken to thousands of companies & workers about remote work

I’ve shared those insights – often provocatively – to drive conversation on two things:

1. Workers deserve a better future of work
2. A better future of work = a higher quality of life A better future of work is one that works for everyone.

From single parents to people with health conditions and impairments that make working in an office impossible.

Making what you can do more important than where you live – is a starting point in a much longer journey.

I've spoken to 2,000+ companies about the future of work in the last 12 months 

A few predictions of what will happen in 2023

[ a thread ] 🌍 ☠️ Office Death: leases are expiring and not being renewed, companies will try to cut their office footprint by 50-70%

Nearly 0 companies will have enough space for 100% of their employee base to go back to the office full-time

IT leaders are the hidden superstars of remote work. They handle the hardest problems with no tools to help them do it

If you're a modern IT leader who wants to dominate the rise of remote work you should check this out 👇

brighttalk.com/webcast/19698/… The more companies I talk to the more I hear modern IT leaders expressing the need to completely shift how end-user computing equipment is managed, due to remote work

There are a variety of reasons why

I’ve spoken to 2,000+ Companies worth a combined $500B+ about remote work

Here are a few things I've learned

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍 ☠️ Office Death: If you go to the offices of big tech companies, out of thousands of seats only 2-3% are used on a daily basis

Workers want the flexibility to choose when or if they come

leases are expiring and not being renewed — Companies won’t have space to ever return

10 things I’ve heard talking to the biggest companies in the world about remote work

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍 ☠️ Office Death: leases are expiring and not being renewed

By the time people can return to the office a lot of companies will no longer have space to return to

I've spoken to 2,000 companies with 30M+ employees spread across them in the last 12 months

Here are a few things I've learned

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍 🏢 HQ’s are finished: companies will cut their commercial office space by 50-70%

The will allow every worker to work from home 2-4 days a week, and come into the office 1-2 days a week

Remote companies are doing to office businesses what eCommerce did to brick & mortar retail

I wrote about it in @future

future.com/remote-startup… The ease and speed with which you can now buy nearly anything online is often taken for granted

Due to the rise of the Internet, the scale, efficiency, and effectiveness of virtual stores beat physical retail into submission

Return to office full-time is the worst decision a company will ever make

A few predictions on what the best companies will do after talking to 3,000+ over last 2 years

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍 🚨The Great Reset: It's never been the great resignation

Workers aren't choosing not to work: they are choosing not to work for companies who treat them terribly

It's not a future of work evolution

It's a quality of life revolution

3 years ago today since we started building @Firstbase

Since then, we’ve began working with everyone from early stage startups – nearly 30 unicorns – to $20B+ enterprises

We’ve helped nearly 30,000 people access a higher quality of life through remote & flexible work What stands out most is how widespread the problem is: it doesn’t matter the size of the organisation getting people the right tools and equipment on day 1 sucks

Fixing things when they are broken is super hard and collecting things when people leave is almost impossible

I spoke to 2,000+ companies in the last 12 months about remote work

Here are a few things I've learnt

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍 🏢Office Death: companies will cut their commercial office space by 50-70%

The will allow every worker to work from home 2-4 days a week, and come into the office 1-2 days a week

I’ve spoken to 50 companies worth $500B+ in the last 3 months about their plans for remote and flexible work going forward

This is what you need to know

[ a thread ] 💻🌍 💀Office Death: Full-time office work is dead. The office will die slowly over the next 10 years

Companies haven’t renewed any office space over the last 2 years and have no big plans to lease more

They don't have enough space for people to go back to

Remote work is the first time in history you don't have to be in a certain place to access the best jobs & opportunities

It is the most important platform shift in the last 100 years Commutes increased and the work day got longer

We had to neglect relationships with family & friends, quit our hobbies because we spent 90% of our day getting ready for, travelling to, or sitting in an office chair

Covid forced millions of people to work remotely

It also highlighted many of it's biggest problems

Here are a few things that need to be fixed:

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍 🤝 Do companies trusting their people?

There are still companies out there who hire team members and don't trust them to do their job

Until companies trust their people, they will always want to see people sat in an office for 8 hours a day

I've spoken to 2,000+ companies with 40M+ employees about remote work in the last 12 months

A few predictions of what will happen before 2030

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍 🚜 Rural Living: World-class people will move to smaller cities, have a lower cost of living & higher quality of life

These regions must innovate quickly to attract that wealth. Better schools, faster internet connections are a must

Some of the smartest people in the world are still getting remote work wrong because they’re scared

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌎 Remote work is the culmination of 30 years of progress:

1. Software
2. The internet
3. Mobile computers

You can’t believe in progress but not believe in remote work

People against it sound like the luddites who rejected the internet because it wasn’t their status quo

Who remembers dial-up internet in 1995?

Then, nobody trusted anyone enough to purchase goods online

By 2005, things began to change: Amazon and eBay had emerged and some people were willing to purchase some things on the internet In 2015, almost everyone was buying some products online. The internet and e-commerce had matured

Amazon led a revolution in purchasing behaviour, beginning with books and expanding to everything, with larger inventory, better cost, and delivered ever more quickly

Online shopping broke stores because it’s more flexible, costs less, shoppers have more choice, and you don’t have travel hours to get there

Online working breaks offices because it’s more flexible, costs less, workers have more choice, and you don’t travel hours to get there Stores still exist because in-person experience is still good for some things

Office will still exist because in-person experiences will still be good for some things

There are 255 million desk jobs globally – most of them won't be done in an office by 2030

A few predictions on what will change in the next decade

[ a thread ] 💻🌍 🏦Third Space: Office and Working from Home will be joined by somewhere close by that a number of people will use

Supermarkets or local bank branches should emerge as a convenient ubiquitous location option – if they are smart

20 tips from world leading experts on how to make remote work incredible for yourself or your teams

👇🧵 🪑get a great chair and desk

An ergonomic chair and an electric sit + stand desk are essential

Nobody wants back pain and it’s impossible to do great work for a long time without them