The starting of a new era - large-scale remote working triggered by the coronavirus - has come to everyone’s surprise.
The side effect of an epidemic might be a signal for a revolution at the workplace. This is a good opportunity to show the employers that working from home or remote working arrangement is feasible, or even no less efficient than the traditional face-to-face office working arrangement. This is also an occasion for the employees to reflect upon how much they could really accomplish if they have more freedom to choose what to do and when to do it.
The time may finally arrive one day when no one is bounded by a contract to just one company. Everyone will be more like a freelancer, offering services to different companies on the market, and free to choose. Companies will no longer need to have a standard payroll, and they could only hire when they need. Everyone will be like a business on their own, and their own ability is their own brand. What will come will be fascinating, but only slowly industry by industry. The first place that it will come to is the white collar work - those that can be safely and efficiently executed elsewhere than an office. People will be connected by video and audio when needed, and can also meet once in a while in a physical setting as well.
As a result of this, while people are more disconnected with their colleagues - spending less time together - there will be an increasing need to embrace their local communities, whether it’s the families, the neighbors, the community activities, and etc.
In addition, social skills will prove to be less important in the virtual workplace. It will be still important, but it won’t be that you need to rely heavily on it for your career advancement. The most important quality would be the values you could create, which would be largely based on your expertise. In another word, you would be more judged by your hard skills than by your soft skills.
More importantly, we will enter a period where online learning will explode further. It is no longer sufficient to just know what you know right now. Everyone will need to recharge very frequently, and the easiest way is through online course. People will have easier access to even more high-quality education resources, and colleague or graduate school diploma will increasing move online as well, to tailor to the needs of the working class who would want to obtain some official certification or qualification, at lower cost and with more flexibility. As a consequence, graduating from a good school will be less of an criteria in hiring people. Your competitiveness will be more based on how much you are willing to learn continuously - after graduation and in the workplace.
That is, work will be more agile, and people as well. There is still a long way to go, but it’s coming, at a faster pace now. It will be an exciting world.
The side effect of an epidemic might be a signal for a revolution at the workplace. This is a good opportunity to show the employers that working from home or remote working arrangement is feasible, or even no less efficient than the traditional face-to-face office working arrangement. This is also an occasion for the employees to reflect upon how much they could really accomplish if they have more freedom to choose what to do and when to do it.
The time may finally arrive one day when no one is bounded by a contract to just one company. Everyone will be more like a freelancer, offering services to different companies on the market, and free to choose. Companies will no longer need to have a standard payroll, and they could only hire when they need. Everyone will be like a business on their own, and their own ability is their own brand. What will come will be fascinating, but only slowly industry by industry. The first place that it will come to is the white collar work - those that can be safely and efficiently executed elsewhere than an office. People will be connected by video and audio when needed, and can also meet once in a while in a physical setting as well.
As a result of this, while people are more disconnected with their colleagues - spending less time together - there will be an increasing need to embrace their local communities, whether it’s the families, the neighbors, the community activities, and etc.
In addition, social skills will prove to be less important in the virtual workplace. It will be still important, but it won’t be that you need to rely heavily on it for your career advancement. The most important quality would be the values you could create, which would be largely based on your expertise. In another word, you would be more judged by your hard skills than by your soft skills.
More importantly, we will enter a period where online learning will explode further. It is no longer sufficient to just know what you know right now. Everyone will need to recharge very frequently, and the easiest way is through online course. People will have easier access to even more high-quality education resources, and colleague or graduate school diploma will increasing move online as well, to tailor to the needs of the working class who would want to obtain some official certification or qualification, at lower cost and with more flexibility. As a consequence, graduating from a good school will be less of an criteria in hiring people. Your competitiveness will be more based on how much you are willing to learn continuously - after graduation and in the workplace.
That is, work will be more agile, and people as well. There is still a long way to go, but it’s coming, at a faster pace now. It will be an exciting world.
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