South African companies embrace remote work

Peter du ToitI'm the founder of FutureWork IQ where I spend my time assisting businesses to improve their climate literacy so as to understand the projected impacts from the expanding climate crisis and how to adapt their workplaces in the face of these impacts.

Besides saving on rent they are also discovering that remote work allows them to:

🌍 Recruit talent from anywhere
👩🏻‍🎓 Retain their top people
🙆🏽‍♂️ Have happier staff
📊 Improve productivity
⚠️ Improve disaster preparedness
📉 Radically reduce CO2 emissions

Note: Time to repurpose these buildings into residential accommodation.

For example, see the approach being taken in New Zealand — Post-pandemic design: UDINZ reimagines urban centres