For the global business world, the COVID-19 crisis has been, in effect, an unscheduled experiment in the feasibility of rapidly converting a large portion of the workforce to doing their jobs from home. It has been a shift without precedent, and what perhaps seemed like a temporary solution back in March or April is looking more and more like a permanent change.
In recent months, many major companies have announced a change in policy that will allow employees to continue working from home even when the pandemic is behind us. Mobile payments giant Square, owned by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has said it plans to let its staff continue working remotely indefinitely.
"Moving forward, Squares will be able to work from home permanently, even once offices begin to reopen. Over the past several weeks, we've learned a lot about what it takes for people to effectively perform roles outside of an office, and we will continue to learn as we go," a Square spokesperson told The Verge.
