Episode 55 - The Cost of Working Remotely

Technology is really supposed to do a lot of things… make us more efficient, remind us to be healthier, solve our most complex problems… while at the same time being simple enough that an elementary school child can pick it up and somehow make me feel a million years old at Fortnite…

All these things, whether they’re successful or not carry some measure of tangible value because, frankly, we would have stopped using them by now without it!

But in one, genuinely key area technology hasn’t just evolved in recent years, its hit light speed… and that’s the gear, the software, and really the services that drive and enable remote work in the modern world… 

Listen, regardless of what any of these companies will happily tell you, none of this is revolutionary… we’ve had VPNs for decades, video calls since Skype, and sometimes I actually do miss when email was the only virtual pile of notifications I had to worry about triaging each day… but the ubiquity of it all, how the rabid hunger for these tools in almost every vertical and way of life… that's relatively new…

Certainly the Pandemic played a horrifying but pivotal role in that seemingly overnight explosion onto the stage of our “new normal”… but as companies globally are grappling with the NEW new normal… we got to wondering at a personal level, and a professional level, heck even as a human that just wants to get to work each day… what is the Cost of Working Remotely…