As businesses bring employees back to the office following the lockdowns and closures of the past year and a half, leaders everywhere are thinking about how (and whether or not) we want to transition back to in-office work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the co-founder of Service Direct<\/a>, a technology company that offers local lead generation solutions for service businesses, it\u2019s certainly top of mind for me. Before the pandemic, if you had asked me if we would ever be a fully remote workforce, I would have said no way. We had always offered a flexible work schedule<\/a> as a perk of the job, with unlimited PTO and alternative hours, but being in our physical office in the Austin area was part of the job. It also figured into how we hired, limiting our talent pool to the area where our headquarters is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the pandemic hit, we were forced to figure out how to make it work as a fully remote workforce<\/a>. While I initially thought employees would take advantage of the work-from-home time, our experience was quite the opposite. In many ways, I feel that as a company we\u2019re working more closely than ever before. After just a few bumps in the road in the beginning, everyone pulled together to figure out how to put systems in place that not only helped us survive but thrive. That\u2019s why, going forward, Service Direct is launching a full hybrid model of work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n