With COVID-19 now revving its engine, I suspect that many of you are reading this article from the kitchen table, perhaps still in your pajamas. But even before the present global virus situation, this casual teleworking image was pretty familiar for many job functions. I mean – let’s be honest: Checking email is checking email – regardless of whether this mindless task is done on the corporate LAN or across your home broadband.
But when an entire company decides to collectively embrace telework at the same time, over an extended period of time, the result is that business processes must change. And whether a given change is good or bad is perhaps beside the point (although most required changes to accommodate virtual work are good). Rather, I choose to emphasize that as a result of COVID-19, some business processes will necessarily change. This is unavoidable. ...read more!
