Global Work From Home Day
For another 30-40 years, people with disabilities worked at home, gluing mail envelopes, knitting clothes, and assembling latches, door and window hinges
Today the situation has changed Thanks to the development of digital technologies, companies and large corporations are increasingly transferring employees of various qualifications to remote work Thus, to reduce the cost of products and change fashion collections every 2 weeks, the management of the Zara company uses the labor of Spanish housewives They sew some clothes for sale in company stores without visiting the factory
Remote work for yourself as a freelancer or company is regulated by tax and labor laws in most countries around the world The company may have employees living in different parts of the world who communicate with each other and with management using modern communication means Electronic signature and non-cash payments allow you to sign an agreement with your employer and receive your salary without visiting the office An unusual holiday has been established in honor of one of the forms of employment April 10 is Global Work from Home Day
Remote work, the main trend of our time, appeared long before the introduction of digital technologies into life In 1728, teacher Caleb Phillips from Boston published a message in the city newspaper about correspondence teaching of shorthand at home using the mail In a similar way, without visiting students, until the beginning of the 20th century teachers of cursive writing, linguistics and other disciplines earned money Before the advent of television, telegraph and radio were used for distance learning - in 1923, more than 10% of broadcast stations in the United States were owned by colleges and universities With the advent of computers, tutors increasingly began to work remotely from home
For the first time, Alan Kiron, an employee of the US Patent Office, spoke about changing the form of employment in the near future In 1969, the Washington Post published his article that new means of communication, computers and computers could significantly affect not only a person’s life, but also his work And Kiron called the new phenomenon “Dominetics” The term did not catch on, but the idea of remote work developed
A trip to the office or enterprise almost always involves fuel consumption, which uses personal and public transport In 1973, due to another oil crisis, a research group at the University of Southern California led by Jack Neill conducted a major study on the possibilities of organizing remote work
The case study was an insurance company with 2,000 employees located in Los Angeles Each of its workers traveled an average of 344 km to the office and back every day The cost of gasoline consumed annually by all employees at 1974 prices was $273 million From this we can conclude that organizing decentralization using remote work makes a significant contribution to saving natural resources and protecting the environment
In 1993, economist and financier Peter Drucker declared commuting to the office obsolete and obsolete With the advent of the Internet, it has become possible to move information and office work to where people are, using all available tools: email, fax, PC, modem, etc Management guru Drucker was right in his predictions: in 2014, the number of residents of Canada, the United States and Australia, working remotely was 9%, and at the end of 2019 - already 20%
Humans are social creatures who need to communicate with each other In this, as well as in the possibilities of organizing remote monitoring of employee activities, experts see obstacles to increasing the number of people working remotely Scientists, company managers and their subordinates discuss the pros and cons of this form of employment and overcoming existing problems during the Global Work From Home Day