Today many people work remotely but major organizations continue to arbitrarily require staff to be in the office 2 or 3 days a week. WHY. It is either political pressure to maintain the traditional downtown environment or they still don't understand the power of virtualizing their organizations for fiscal and operation al performance enhancement. the application in their continuity program alone should make them rethink that position.
Years ago Tele-Commuter Resources developed its Workforce Virtualization Program as a first step in moving society into the Information Age. It was developed for C-Level engagement. Based upon a profile of occupations, not the individual, it is a multi-phased program to illustrate the deployment potential, the environmental and space reduction benefits. It developed a scenario modeling process to select the optimal deployment plan based upon corporate goals. It embedded the policy development structure to build a deployment plan and the transactional environment to strategically deploy staff.
90% complete, as a non-profit we could not get past the 'just send them home' crowd. It is so much bigger than that. Despite receiving 2 patents on the program, we had to abandon the development.
The second reason we undertook the project was to allow workers to exercise their Freedom of Residential Choice and relocate to rural communities. The lack of broadband and the non-institutionalized remote work deployment processes prevented this freedom from being realized. As Broadband still struggles after 20 years, TCR developed the Information Age Community Project ( https://telecommuter.org/information-age-community/ )and it is now moving towards implementation.
We are desperately trying to find programmers with the skills to complete the original development and to update it to current programming standards. Our original goals remain but we are changing the environment that blocked us earlier and creating a new environment that captures the benefits of the Information Age with the tools that fully integrate the rural and urban economies .
I would love to discuss this with anyone that can move past the status quo of road congestion etc