I think for remote working to be a win/win from both a company and employee perspective it is incumbent on the company to have in place a good (and agile) project management system and a project management culture.

This puts the focus on achieving the goals and timelines of the project rather than on individual tasks and where they are being performed.

Unfortunately a lot of companies don’t do this and eventually suspicion can form on whether the employee is working from home effectively and productively. There is a famous example where a former icon of the computer industry (starts with a “Y”) had a great remote working culture which was then actively discouraged by the new incoming CEO.

I suspects the inability to accurately show and measure results from a project perspective across the Enterprise was definitely a factor in this decision.

Fortunately we have great remote working tools these days to help an employee feel connected to the team without physically being in the office.

As Milica has said in her post there is a mindset involved in remote working plus getting your environmental factors right.

I think it is inevitable that more and more people will be remote working in the future, across a wide range of different industries, so it’s important that we continue to get this right.