{"id":39483,"date":"2021-02-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/the-future-of-work-coming-sooner-than-you-think\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:00:00","slug":"the-future-of-work-coming-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/the-future-of-work-coming-sooner-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of work: Coming sooner than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prior the pandemic, you could ask a dozen people what \u201cthe future of work\u201d meant and get 13 different answers. Some insisted it was about distributing discrete responsibilities among two-pizza teams<\/a>, while others preached about robots eliminating jobs and the need for universal basic income<\/a> as compensation.<\/p>\n

Then COVID-19 pressed the fast-forward button, and we learned about the immediate, practical future of work in a hurry. The most obvious lesson \u2013 you don\u2019t need to be at the office to get stuff done \u2013 was already understood in tech, just never proven at scale. We\u2019re only starting to grasp the implications of that real-world confirmation.<\/p>\n

Writing for Computerworld, contributor Mike Elgan draws on his own long experience as a digital nomad<\/a> in \u201cRemote work 2.0 \u2014 when WFH really means ‘work from anywhere<\/a>\u2019\u201d to make a bold prediction: Tech workers will migrate en masse from high-priced urban tech hubs to cheaper, less populous locales with lower risk of contagion.<\/p>\n