The song Covid-19 is the fastest selling song in the world and deserves the Grammy award for a song without an artist (Just kidding please), but the virus has spread to several nations making it a pandemic and this made a lot of countries place lockdowns and quarantine as one way of preventing the spread. With this, everyone is now working from home and this might be going on for a long time even after the pandemic. Remote working has now become the norm and interestingly, a lot of companies are enjoying this and do not plan on working from office space after this pandemic. A lot of people have started enjoying Google hangout, Slack, Zoom and others instead of meeting at the bar and contracting a virus.
There are a lot of companies planning to move to remote working and they plan to this immediately. Here are a few companies that might not come back to office space after the pandemic.
Coinbase
Brian Armstrong said in May that the company will be adding a remote first policy to its work location. Since Coinbase Headquarters in San Francisco will have to put a 6 feet separation between staffs, then it is visible that the company won’t be spacious enough to occupy all the workers. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong want to utilize the remote working and create a policy so employees can work from home.
Twitter and Square
The CEO of these companies Jack Dorsey told employees that are not physically needed to work on the server to remain at home as they can work from home indefinitely. There will be about 4900 employees working from home and can keep working from home for as long as possible. The company made this known when it created its work from home policy called mandatory.
Amazon
Amazon in April said that employees who could work from home can work until October 2020, this is because the company want to prevent people from getting the virus. For people whose work involves going to the office, there are proper safety measures in place to keep employees safe.
With its head office in San Francisco, it won’t be spacious enough to occupy all its employees following the social distance policy. Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that many employees will be working from home permanently. Facebook has about 45,000 employees working from home currently and this may take a long time before they are accustomed to working remotely.
Other companies that have also started working from home includes Shopify, Upworthy, Laserfiche, Lambda school and many more. What do you think about live after the Covid-19 Pandemic, will your business be going fully online and remotely, will your business be affected in terms of sales after the pandemic and how?