McKinsey Global Institute on What’s next for Remote Work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries

Hybrid models of Remote work are likely to persist in the wake of the pandemic, mostly for a highly educated, well-paid minority of the workforce.

Now that vaccines are awaiting approval, the question looms: To what extent will remote work persist? In this article, MGI assesses the possibility for various work activities to be performed remotely.

The virus has broken through cultural and technological barriers that prevented remote work in the past, setting in motion a structural shift in where work takes place, at least for some people.

More than 20 percent of the workforce could work remotely three to five days a week as effectively as they could if working from an office. If remote work took hold at that level, that would mean three to four times as many people working from home than before the pandemic and would have a profound impact on urban economies, transportation, and consumer spending, among other things.

To learn more, please read the entire MGI article here.