Remote work didn’t just appear overnight—it’s been evolving for decades! In this debut episode of The Evolving Workplace series, Wayne Turmel takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of remote work. From the early days of landlines and fax machines to the game-changing introduction of laptops and video conferencing, he explores how technology, corporate culture, and even a few unexpected moments (hello, AOL free discs!) shaped the way we work today.
Understanding the past helps us navigate the future—so how did we get here, and what does it mean for the way we work moving forward? Tune in to find out!
Listen For
00:00 Introduction
02:00 How the Workplace is Evolving
03:08 The Early Days of Remote Work (Pre-1990s)
05:54 The 1993 Watershed Moment: Laptops & Internet Access
10:40 The Rise of Email & the Shift in Office Roles
12:36 Video Calls & WebEx: A Game Changer
16:01 The 2013 Remote Work Boom (and Backlash)
19:24 The Shift to Hybrid Work & What’s Next
23:50 What This Means for Leaders & Employees
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Kevin Eikenberry
Hi, I'm your host, Kevin Eikenberry, and usually these episodes are about me sharing a short piece of information with you or bringing on a guest. But for the next six weeks, as a part of this very special series called The Evolving Workplace, I'll be handing the mic over to Wayne Turmel. Wayne's been my coauthor of the long distance leader, twice the long distance teammate in the long distance team, and he's been the host of an ongoing podcast called Long Distance Work Life Podcast, which has just come to a close, although all those episodes are worth your time, go to Long Distance worklife.com to learn more.
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Kevin Eikenberry
In this series, Wayne will give new context and new ideas for us as leaders to understand the evolving workplace and how we can lead our organizations and teams through it. I hope you will enjoy all of these episodes in the series, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy everything else we bring you on the Remarkable Leadership Podcast, and now here's Wayne.
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Wayne Turmel
Where we are now.
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How the heck we got here. Where we think things are going. And it's important because we are in the middle of one of the most seismic changes in what it means to work and to have a job and to.
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Work for somebody.
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Else. Probably. We've seen in the last nine years, since the 1920s and 30s. And so we hope that this is a very nonacademic look. It's very casual, but we hope that it gives you some insight and some perspective on what the heck's going on out there. I believe.
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Personally, you can't know where you're going.
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If you don't know where you've been.
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So we're going to start.
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With kind of the beginnings.
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Of remote work.
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And hit the.
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Major milestones.
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And what that has meant in the change.
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If you hear your parents or your.
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Grandparents complaining and.
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Not understanding.
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Why work is what it is.
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There's a good reason for that.
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So we're going to go back to about 1990 now.
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Yes, we've had remote work before that you have heard me.
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Say many times that.
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You know, the first marathon.
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Was run because we didn't have email. Somebody was sending a message.
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From the Battle of Thermopylae.
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To Athens and, you know, that was the only way to do it. We've had.
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Remote.
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Work. Genghis Khan ruled half.
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The world.
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And never held a WebEx meeting. But think about night 1890. If you were even alive then. And if you weren't, don't tell me. This is kind of the beginning of my adult career. And so if you think back to 1990, what was or we had landlines, instantaneous communication was basically telephone.
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Or fax.
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Machines. Very few people had them at home. The internet was still in the hands of geeks and scientists. People didn't have internet in their homes. If people had.
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Computers, they were.
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Huge, clunky things with.
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Monochrome.
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Screens and even the heads of IBM.
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Were.
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Saying, you know, nobody's going to need a computer at home.
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What little remote work.
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Existed was largely salespeople. We had a sales.
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Person.
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In a.
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Territory.
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Maybe because most sales.
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Calls were done in person.
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So it was, you know, not often, but.
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We were starting.
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To investigate the idea, particularly in sales again, of could somebody.
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Work unsupervised away from everybody.
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Else and still.
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Be productive?
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The big.
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Watershed.
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Year, and this is kind of a sneaky big deal, was 19.
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93. A couple.
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Of things happened in 1990.
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Three. First of all, big corporations.
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IBM in particular, was experiment with the idea of allowing people.
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To work from.
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Home at least part of the time so that they could do deep thought analysis.
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Work away.
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From the hubbub of the office. That was the plan. Now, this was helped by the fact that in 1992, IBM released the ThinkPad, which was.
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The first portable computer.
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One hesitates to call it a laptop, because if you had one of these bad boys, you know that it was big and heavy and clunky. And since.
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You probably didn't have internet.
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Access in 1992, it was essentially.
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A big word.
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Processor.
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Most of the early adopters were either salespeople who were constantly traveling for work, or senior managers who were traveling the country, region to region.
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Email was starting to be a thing, but was still being used sparingly.
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And there were.
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Two critical things that created a huge, huge watershed.
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The first was Microsoft.
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6.0 was.
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Released.
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And that made things like.
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Word processing, color, the introduction of PowerPoint.
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All of the tools that we.
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Use in our everyday.
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Work when we came out in its.
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Very roughest form in 19.
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90.
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Three.
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And that allowed normal people access to.
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Word processing.
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Without having to know codes and, and, you know, control alt something.
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Or other in order to indent a paragraph.
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The other thing was that America Online in 1993 started sending out free disks to people. And if you have never experienced the joy of using.
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Your telephone.
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Line, you couldn't be on the phone at the same time you use the internet. But all of a.
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Sudden everybody's grandma.
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Could access the internet. Not that there was a lot to access and email between human beings on a personal basis started, and the consumer adoption of Microsoft and AOL and Apple doing its thing about this time really, really changed the way people thought about work. And it made it possible to.
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Work almost.
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Anywhere, at least in theory. Now there's something. If you read the article on.
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Our blog.
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At Kevin.
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Icon Barry dot.
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Com, there's something that wasn't discussed in the.
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Article.
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That I think is.
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Worth talking.
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About. And that's this.
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Prior to the introduction.
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Of laptops and.
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Easy word.
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Processing software and the like, the way.
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We worked was very.
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Different.
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Offices were important.
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Because managers, executives and salespeople did not do their own admin work. There was usually one.
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Secretary or.
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Admin.
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For every million dollars of.
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Revenue, which meant that most offices had people whose.
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Job it was to write.
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Correspondence and take care of the nuts and bolts, while.
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People were allowed to.
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Do the job for which they were hired. And if you don't remember the chaos of salespeople who had always had.
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Secretaries.
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And then suddenly allowed to.
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Write their own.
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Email unedited and send things out and.
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Build their own.
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Presentations when before that had been in the hands of professionals. It was pretty chaotic. And not only was the quality.
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Of the work.
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Somewhat suspect, but all of a sudden managers, executives, less executives because a lot of them still have admins. But but salespeople, people suddenly had to do their own admin work, work that had been done by somebody else. And while the.
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Computers and such allowed.
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Productivity overall to go up, we were spending a lot less time doing.
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The jobs for.
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Which we were hired. And this is also a huge change in the way.
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Corporations were structured.
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And let me tell you, this, it might not seem a big deal. Oh, we don't have secretaries. We don't have admins. In 1990, six point.
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1% of the workforce were secretaries and.
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Had by 2020, that number was less.
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Than 2%. There's an entire job category that disappeared.
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So yes, technology allowed us to change how quickly we.
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Could work and how.
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Productive we could be, but we also.
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Found ourselves.
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Doing a lot of jobs that.
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For.
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Years had been done by somebody else. And so that changes the way we work. On the one hand.
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We were doing a lot of grunt work and admin.
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That we could probably lived without. On the other hand, we could.
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Work faster and we could work from.
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Anywhere because we didn't have.
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That extra layer of workers.
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A couple of other things happened by 1999.
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5% of the workforce.
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Was working from home. At least part of the time, internet speeds were picking up. And in 1999, WebEx became available. And this was a huge deal. I remember watching Oprah Winfrey in 1999 explained to.
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Every housewife.
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In America that you could have a video call.
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For free.
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With anybody on the planet, anywhere, at any time. I mean, this was the stuff of science fiction. This was The Jetsons, and suddenly it was available to everybody. And this, as you can imagine, really started to blow things up. So the ability to.
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Work from.
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Anywhere have.
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Good internet.
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Access. The introduction of webcams really only dates back to 1999.
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And really.
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2000 2000 was.
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The first.
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Laptops that had cameras built into them. You know, so the age of asking, do I have to be on camera had begun, but that was only 20.
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Four years ago. And while there's no hard.
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Evidence, my gut tells me in anecdotally this is when people.
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Realized.
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They could get a lot more done outside of the office. So things like, I have a sick kid.
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Can I work from.
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Home today?
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Bad weather.
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I don't feel great. I'm going.
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To work from home.
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Because I have the sniffles. All of that.
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Became more common.
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And that was kind of the introduction of stealth.
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Remote work.
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If you will. The interesting thing by 2008, for.
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The first.
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Time, laptops outsold desktop computers. Think about the implications.
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Of portability of our.
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Equipment became the standard in a.
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Lot of organizations.
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And that's the kind of watershed moment where you get these quantum leaps in what happens by 2013, nearly 20%.
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Remember.
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Just a few years before it was less than five, all of a sudden, by.
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2013, 20%.
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Of white.
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Collar knowledge workers, whatever we call.
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Them.
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Worked from home.
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At least once in a while.
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And those numbers kept rising.
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And and we saw.
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The first backlash.
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In about.
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2013, 2014.
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Yahoo said, oh, wait a minute.
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People are working from home and our managers.
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Don't know how to handle.
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This. So we're going to call everybody.
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Back into the office. And there was craziness and rebellion. Then people freaked out. And if this sounds familiar, it's.
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Very reminiscent.
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Of what is going on now.
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With auto.
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Requirements. So we're talking about.
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2013 here. Right?
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Over the next seven.
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Years or so.
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Companies allow.
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Remote work. The number grows and grows and grows.
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The number of.
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People who.
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Work remotely.
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Full.
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Or most of.
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The time grows at about.
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20% per year.
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It's pretty amazing, actually. And here's the deal. Only 10% of companies have formal policies.
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Around remote.
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Work. Everything is done on a case by case basis.
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Managers, some managers are.
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Comfortable with it, some art, some companies allow it. Some companies, the senior don't even know that it's happening.
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I remember.
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Talking to clients who would walk.
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Through their.
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Offices and half the desks.
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Were empty.
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And they'd say.
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Well, where is everybody? They're supposed to be at work.
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Wayne Turmel
And the.
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Manager would say, well, they are at work, but.
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So-And-So's in Denver and so-and-so has a sick kid, and so-and-so has a big presentation tomorrow and wants to focus. And so it was happening. Remote work was happening, but there wasn't.
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A lot of rhyme or reason to.
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It.
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For leaders. As leaders.
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What does this mean for us going forward and as individuals? What does the evolving workplace mean for them? If they want a career, a successful lifestyle, to be employed all of these things are going to.
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Merit some more.
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Investigation over the next few weeks in this series. So thank.
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Wayne Turmel
You for joining.
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Wayne Turmel
Me. I know this has been a little long, but it's created context. We know how we got here and it was unwieldy and.
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Weird and.
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Largely unplanned. But here we are. Next episode we're going to take a look at the so what what do we do now? My name is Wayne Trammell.
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Thank you for joining us.
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All of these podcast episodes also have.
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Blog versions which are available.
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At Kevin eikenberry.com. You can contact me, Wayne at Kevin eikenberry.com. I appreciate you listening. I look.
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Forward.
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To walking you through the next few episodes. And thank.
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You for joining.
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Us on The Evolving.
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Workplace.
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