Business and Coronavirus - We are ready to adapt

It is known that Millennial Generation, or Gen Y, started to change how the market and industry see business environment when they started to make part of business universe. Forget the bureau, the big offices - the Gen Y likes to work wherever they like and that is good not only for them, but for the business owners as well. Although there are those at the high chain of command that doesn't like this kind of idea, now, with Coronavirus, it seems to be a good idea to adopt more the idea of home office.

Coronavirus needs no introduction. We all know it very well and how fast it is growing all over the world. The best way of not spreading the virus? Staying at home, be he or she a child, a student, or even a worker - yes, even a worker. Thanks to the advance of the internet and the idea of home office, this is something that we all are willing to do, but think a little bit how would that work during the 80's, 90's and even during the 00's. It simply wouldn't work. At that time, people really needed the physical space to do their jobs. But that is not the reality anymore.

Of course, I know that a medic still have to be at the hospital or clinic, police officers still have to be on patrol, and physical stores still have to have people to sell items. But the idea here is not to be outside home to avoid the dangers or avoiding the chance of infecting other people. With that, the idea of home office will grow even more. In Brazil, for example, between 2016 and 2017, the numbers of persons working from home grew up to 16,2%. Between 2017 and 2018, the expansion was bigger, 21,1%, according to IBGE.

While I’m not trying to say that we all should work from home from now on and forever, I believe that sometimes we can do the work we are supposed to do, but way better at home. I know that are benefits working in business environment such as immediate feedback, in real life social network and negative points working at home such as solitary confinement, some technical issues and the possible lack of discipline. The idea here is to find the perfect balance between those two, because since the beginning, the Gen Y is being prepared for that and the Gen Z will be even more adopted than the previous generation.

Imagine if the Gen Y didn’t tried to push and create new way of doing work and doing business as we know today. That surely would have created problems for the world market and if as right now it is not great the it is, I am sure that would be even worse without the home office trend. Maybe, when Coronavirus is controlled and things start to go back to what were once, people will see home office with another eyes.