Before the virulent C hit town, remote work was a luxury for the higher-ups who were up breathing crisp air. Recruiters and managers were stringent, if not hesitant, to entrust their employees with working from their homes. One heuristic reveals that 44% of companies in the USA didn’t allow remote work.
Then came the blanket of despair with its viruses, virulence, and variants. Remote work became a necessity for businesses to seamlessly operate and keep business empires from crumbling. Employees needed to adapt to working from home.
This paved the way for an unprecedented adoption of remote technologies and remote workforce management strategies. One of those strategies was turning towards a contingent labor force to accentuate specialist roles and functions.