There are a lot of people working from home these days. Some have moved to remote locations or are planning such a move because they no longer need to live within a reasonable commute to where they work.
They are confident that they will always have the same employer or that their next job will also be work from home. Working from home isn’t new and the technology to make it possible has been around for a couple of decades yet people still go to offices to work.
It might be too soon to plan a lifestyle built around telecommuting, it may not become mainstream.
Here is a “work-from-home forecast”, compiled by the National Association of Realtors. The current 21% is as a result of the pandemic, and that will carry into 2021.
The consensus forecast is the compiled median response of 23 economic and housing market experts. It is an educated guess about distance working. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that by 2025 the percentage of people working from home will be back to single-digit percentages, but will be up from 6% in 2019.
In the real estate industry having office space is a big recruiting tool. Some of it has to do with the need that people have for connecting with other people.
There are employers who believe that people need to be in the same room to work together. I think with a little imagination people can work together without being in the same room.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to work from a cabin up north somewhere but I couldn’t give up the internet connection I have here in the city. Last February I upgraded my internet connection and bought a new cable modem too.
