The Great Work From Home Debate: Here’s How GA Professionals Feel

The future of remote work has been unclear for quite some time. While there are many factors that can contribute to an organization offering remote work as a work benefit or perk as well as the organization deciding to offer remote work as part of the core of their day-to-day operations. All over the United States, places are trying to decide what the next-best thing for their operations will be -- remote work, continued stay-at-home orders, and other options that we haven’t discovered yet.

Many companies are discovering that remote work enables their employees to do a better job in their respective roles. Typically, these types of decisions are made under the guise of money -- making decisions for companies and organizations often starts with the money. But organizations are beginning to see that they can actually save money by allowing their employees to work remotely. According to this report, many decision makers in different companies all over the U.S. workforce say that the benefits of remote work are outweighing the drawbacks.

In Georgia, the sentiment about professionals enjoying working from home is fairly widespread. In fact, certain parts of the state are even looking into ways to encourage technology companies to set up headquarters there to allow cities like Savannah to become a remote-work tech hub. This will likely be well received by Georgians, especially with the context of knowing residents of Georgia report enjoying working remotely more so than many other states. In fact, this survey shows Georgia residents rank #2 in terms of populations of states who are actually happy to be working from home, or at least are pleased to have the opportunity at this time.

According to FlexJobs, Georgia is one of the best states in the country for remote work. Many local-based companies are starting to offer more flexibility in their scheduling as well as employment options, which is to say that Georgia is becoming a target and a focus of “remote-first” companies. This summer, as well as the rest of 2020, will be an interesting experiment to see how other businesses follow suite, and whether or not other states will also implement policies to attract remote workers.