But also according to the Corona-Virus is required, from home a significant presence in the enterprises’ daily business is to work is likely to continue. It affects the shape of cities-and the commercial real estate industry, and change the culture in companies that have built up since the years, elaborate temples for their employees.

said Some companies, there is a other reason is Work: from home the work is good.

“from home is a great thing for the company and for the employees that do not want to Work to get back in the car and drive for two hours. That’s lost productivity,” said Joan Burke, chief people officer of DocuSign, a San Francisco tech company that allows electronic arrangements. “I see, it happens much more often in the future.”

It is not a coincidence that tech companies are in the front ranks of the stay-at-home movement. Their software promotes the work at a distance. Tattoo parlors, bars and hair salons, all of which need face-to-face interaction with the customers, have no such luxury.

Well, Yes, as States such as Georgia and Illinois to roll out a gradual re-opening, the companies see a future for remote work. Gartner, said the research company and Advisor that his clients — mostly large firms, expected to have little direct interaction with the audience — as many as half of their employees work at home at least part of the time.

gains A broad shift could have a significant impact to traffic jams, office culture and company. Smaller companies could draw on a much larger pool of potential employees who live beyond the radius of the Central. And for some, it is the boundary between work and home would delete.

There are risks for the company. Employee loyalty could be more thin, so that the retention more difficult. The administration could also be more difficult. But the bottom line is a strong power of attraction exercises.

“There are real cost advantages to do this, and the companies are in a period where a lot of questions,” said Brian Kropp, a Gartner vice President. “Even if employees work remotely, are 5 percent less productive, save you 20 percent on the real estate and at the end of a higher return.”

Couple hug, distant future, how eager, how Zillow, the online real estate company with headquarters in Seattle. He said on April 24 that its 5,000 employees could work at home until 2021.

Three months ago, Zillow had traditional views on the workplace. About 2 percent of the employees work remotely; another 4 percent worked from home part of the time. All of the other every day went./p>

“I don’t see these numbers ever go back to where you were,” Dan Spaulding, Zillow, chief people officer, said in an interview. “Our bias against the work-from-home has been completely resolved.” He said the staff remained to deal with, to be while at home and the company “don’t see no discernible decrease in productivity.”

Mr. Spaulding acknowledged that “there are pieces that are here are negative. The Zoom-phone calls are great, some days not, on other days, and downright horrible for some types of cooperation.”

The open-office-favored plan by Zillow and many other companies, however, slandered, at least in theory, encouraged a collaborative environment. Now you have to reconfigure all of the thinking, in order to lower the risk of infection. is

“If we go back to the 1980s, the office for health reasons” — where everyone had an office with a door, “I know not how many employees are interested in that” Mr. Spaulding said.

progress was inconsistent. New York, Washington, Seattle, and San Francisco flourished, while in other cities lagged. The differences have grown.

“corporate, regional hubs, but as it turned out, you don’t want to be in Phoenix, if all the decisions are made in San Francisco”, Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford Economics professor and co-Director of the productivity, innovation and entrepreneurship, said the program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

“It’s hard to stay motivated, and innovative in your living room sit,” he said. “That sounds more like a” gig ” workers.”

This can be the fate of the nationwide insurance employees in Gainesville, Fla.; Harleysville, Penn.; Raleigh, N. C.; Wausau, Wis., and Richmond, Va., their offices will be permanently closed from Nov. 1.

nationwide has nearly 28,000 employees, about 20 percent of them were already working remotely. The company said it was “the final transition to a hybrid model.” Executives refused to be interviewed.

Other financial companies for more telework security issues as other industries begin to also push back-return dates. Capital One said on Tuesday that a return to the offices this fall would be “slow” and “staggered.”

Amazon, the billion on your new Seattle urban campus, said on April 30, the employees are to work “heartily welcome” from home until October. Facebook and Google internal communications Thursday that most of the employees were said to telework until the end of the year, but also, you would need offices be open this summer for the employees. The company declined to comment.