The real goal of remote work...

Just read this LinkedIn post by Adam Grant, in which he observed that:

The flexibility people want most isn't remote work. It's to set their own hours.
They want to control their time-choose when and how much they work.
Offering freedom sounds like a risk, but squashing it is also a risk.
Stars are the first to leave.

This is a brilliant reframe of the remote work narrative that has emerged throughout 2020 and 2021.

Most discussions about remote work focus on our desire to work from anywhere and set our own hours. But, it's not just a matter of where we work or when we work.

Rather, it's about a desire for control.

It's my hypothesis that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated our awareness of life's fragility and uncertainty. Sure, we may have realized this prior to 2020 - but COVID brought it to the forefront of our thoughts and perspective.

In 2020, our world was thrown into chaos and pandemonium (yeah, there are other pan- words 😇). Like a cup of cold water in the face, we woke up to reality that life is both fragile and uncertain.

Now, we're focused on living meaningful lives.

Time is not reusable. we only get so many minutes, days, years and it seems that the modern workforce is looking to live their life with purpose and meaning.

There are a lot of concepts that tie into this:

• Async work/communications (loom, etc.)

• Effort ROI (getting more results from less effort)

• Automations

But, ultimately, these are simply mediums to achieve our true desire to control and make the most of our life/time.