Thirty years ago remote work looked as futuristic as work from Mars. We did not have mobile phones, e-mails nor the fast Internet connection. We worked with landlines, post deliveries and yellow pages.
From sending letters and faxes, calling people and waiting for a quick response we moved into an era where everything happens instantly.
Where we used to need various tools, devices and accessories to do our jobs, we need only a computer, fast internet connection, mobile phone and the right processes in place.
The only missing part here is a widespread understanding that everything has changed. And our lives changed too.
We have more hobbies; we are more concern about our fitness, our food, our private life. We realise that having money is great and life is hard without it, but life without time to live is much harder.
If an average person sleeps 7 hours, works 9 hours and commute for an hour, it leaves us with 7 spare hours a day. Cooking, eating, showering and we have even less to spend. Finding free time has become our daily challange.
Benefits of well paid jobs a decade earlier were related to things like a company car, dedicated office, better situated cubicle, parking space or “all you can eat” lunch in the company’s cantina. And they worked.
We wanted to feel appreciated and such things gave us that feeling. However, as with everything, this notion became a standard. We slowly stopped thinking about it as something unusual and started to look for something different. Something better.
If a shiny Lexus was a big deal 15 years ago, it is not any more.
We do not want to drive fancy cars on highways to work and back anymore.
We want to drive our lives on roads we choose. No matter how many fancy toys they offer us at work.
Freedom, flexibility and spare time for our personal life. This is real luxury of the new productive generation.
