The work from home revolution is here to stay. While the transition to work from home happened overnight for many of us, the consensus says it will be a permanent change in how we work.
This video from Yahoo! Finance features an interview with Okta CEO and founder, Todd McKinnon. Okta is a login verification platform used by over 10,650 organisations.
Okta publishes its annual Businesses at Work Report which tracks the most popular business applications in the previous year. As Todd says, the most interesting aspect of the 2021 report is that nine of the fastest growing apps are new.
The Okta report underscores just how quickly the world of work has adapted to the work from home revolution, and that includes staff, organisations and service providers.
For people aged over 50, working from home has a unique set of challenges, but also opportunities.
One of the real threats is our ability to learn quickly how to use the plethora of digital business tools that are on the way. And what’s more, we’ll need to be much more self-reliant when we’re learning these programs given that remote work makes it that bit harder to get the support we might need.
On the other hand, the hybrid style work – a mix of office base and home based – could prove a boon to people aged over 50. Losing the commute might mean many of us chose to postpone retirement and stay working for longer as we achieve a more ideal work / life balance.
At Retire Better, our enemy is traditional retirement, the idea that once we reach a certain age, we stop working and Switch OFF. If working from home means we have more choice about how we engage in paid work, then it gets my vote.
