"by 2025 more than 20% of the UK workforce will consist of remote workers"

Chris Shenton | Head of People Science at Weekly10 / June 26, 2019

Extract :

"Remote working – culture

You might have been involved in casual chat around remote work, with phrases like “I work remotely now” or “I now get to travel and take my work with me” often overheard both in social and corporate settings. You might have even nodded along as a friend or colleague has waxed lyrical about the virtues of their new flexible working lifestyle, but you may still have questions, starting with the obvious:

What is remote work?

Remote work isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. For decades travelling salesmen racked up thousands of miles on the M6, freelance journalists typed on their typewriters from battlefields or scenes of political scandal and back in the 1940’s midwives rode out to patients on their trusty two-wheelers (or so television would have us believe) to deliver little bundles of joy well away from often ill-equipped hospitals. 

However, the remote work revolution really began in the early 2000’s as technological advances and work philosophies (particularly in the always innovative, always sunny locale of Silicon Valley) opened up the possibility of a whole new way of working for historically office-based staff."

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