I have 4 hours more for homelife every day when I combine primping, lunches with office workers, and commuting.
I have rebuilt a fence. Installed 3 flower beds, made a perfect yard, and my guitar skills are growing by leaps and bounds.
We have great colaboration tools available today, so we truely are agile and productive.
Avatars are now available and one guy turned himself into a talking cat in our last meeting.
How fun!
Analysts and support staff have only grown closer through all this.
We do miss the daily social chatter of the office, but I see no need to go back to the office.
So from now on I plan to work remotely about 90+ percent of the time for the remainder of my career.
Not everyone can do that, I know.... but to be honest, I chose I.T. for this reason 25 years ago.
I never dreamed it would take so long for people to adopt the remote advantage.
I certainly never thought that it would require a pandemic for people to figure out how good the age of computers can be.
Now, our way of thinking has changed and this will open us up to big growth and improve our planet at the same time.
Hopefully we will have less need for clearing jungles to build office buildings and we can reduce all the concrete redundancies.
We will have more time to focus on work/life balance, improve our well being. and pursue a new and improved passion for learning. We are improving ourselves more efficiently than ever.
The next 10 years could show more growth than the last 100. I think people are finally primed and ready to take full advantage of the tools.
My prediction-
(Already starting to happen.)
Politicians and greedy misdeeds of an upper 1% will lose power as computers give people the power to choose for themselves... People will come together more when they realize a truely united front. The laws of the gravitas of truth will permiate and majority rule will become a socially built and prosperous reality. A high council of millions of individuals with the power to come to a concensus when faced with realities.
People can govern themselves, and they will, once the blinders are removed.
They will realize they no longer need leaders as they begin to harness the power of unity.
People are realizing that these 'leaders' have falsely propped up the chaos of racism and social disarray for their own desires.
A evolution now exists. Not to be confused with revolution, because it is not a fight. It is simply a new age.
Welcome to the new age...