Will Telework Provide Economic Boosts to Smaller Local Areas?

“They’re finding that they’re getting more from the workers at home,” he said.

Cox also sees the shift to telework as something that was in the cards anyway. COVID-19 simply accelerated the change.

“We knew this was coming,” Cox said. “We thought it was coming in three or four years from now. What happened in three weeks [after the start of the health crisis] has been pretty incredible.”

by Jed Pressgrove