Cross-time workforce

What: With employees scattered across the world, questions like “when does the work day start?” and “when does it end?” becomes more arbitrary. Employees and employers will need to figure out ways to work efficiently and still allow for a work-life navigation.

So What: Besides having to find a balance between work and life in different time zones there are many benefits as well. One person can work on tasks and hand off at the end of their workday to be picked up by someone else who just started their day.

 

Deep Dive:
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/working-home-future-work-11-reasons-office-sounds-better/
https://buffer.com/resources/timezone-challenges/

 

This article is part of Emerging Futures of Remote Work – An Institute for the Future Signals Report for The Remote Lab

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