The Growing List of Companies Planning to Work Remotely Beyond Lockdown and Forever

The impact of coronavirus pandemic will be with us for some years and one area of life that will be most affected is the workplace. The pandemic has made many to adopt what seems impossible, an example is embracing the idea to work-from-home.

For some of these companies the work-from-home solutions to working might be forever or seen phased in gradually. So far, the big global tech giants are leading the way by accepting that working from home will be forever.

Twitter

Twitter has said it will allow some of its workforce to continue working from home beyond the pandemic. In its word: the staff could “forever,” if they choose. Though, the roles which qualify for this work-from-home are not clear

Facebook

For Facebook the opportunity might qualify if to recruit from anywhere in the world. The founder (please verify his position), Mark Zuckerberg has said that in the next 5 to 10 years as many as 50% of the company’s employees could be working from the comfort of their homes.

Shopify

The company’s CEO, Tobi Lutke has announced that “Office centricity is over” that his eCommerce platform will have its offices under locks and keys till 2021.

In his tweet, “Until recently, work happened in the office. We’ve always had some people remote, but they used the internet as a bridge to the office. This will reverse now. The future of the office is to act as an on-ramp to the same digital workplace that you can access from your #WFH setup.

Square

The American financial services, merchant services aggregator and mobile payment wants to make it possible for employees to be able to work from anywhere they want. The Company’s spokesperson has said: “Squares will be able to work from home permanently, even once offices begin to reopen.”

Box

The Growing List of Companies That will Allow people to work-from-home forever

Box, one of the foremost global cloud-storage company has written through the CEO Aaron Levie that the employees of the company are free to work “from anywhere” until the end of 2020. He also pledged that stipends would be made available to employees to improve their home office setups.

Groupe PSA

French automaker PSA has announced that it plans to redesign its offices to allow in-person interaction in the workplace when needed but it intends to reduce the number of people coming around to its workplace for its non-production staff, thus they will be able to work remotely.

PSA makes Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel and Vauxhall and it plans to commence the work-from-home plans this year’s summer

Lambda School

The 100% live and online school has announced the roll-out of a permanent “work from anywhere” policy. The Co-founder and CEO, Austen Allred announced in a tweet, “Employees are free to work from home, from an office or from anywhere within the United States.” He said offices will remain shut till the end of August at the minimum.

Coinbase

Coinbase, a platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrency, has said through its Brian Armstrong, that the company will be moving to remote-first policy, which means that employees will have the option to work-from-home. The CEO estimated that 20-60% of its workforce will work remotely after the pandemic.

Aweber

Aweber, an email marketing platform, has stated through its CEO & Founder, Tom Kulzer the decision to become “a remote-first team”. The company has canceled all team members travel until September and announce there won’t be in-person team events until 2021.

Upwork

Upwork, a global freelancing platform, is now permanently embracing a “remote-first” model. This was announced in a tweet by Hayden Brown, the company’s CEO. She said “Going forward, working remotely will be the default for everyone, while teams will also be able to come together – once it’s safe – for intentional collaboration and socialization. The #futureofwork is here.”