According to the respondents, only 30 percent had companies where the employees worked distributedly before the pandemic, whereas, after the pandemic it is projected that 48 percent of respondents' companies will have distributed workplaces. To work distributedly is different than working remote, as to "work distributedly" assumes that there is not a main location to work remote from in the first place. Instead, the company itself is distributed. This has significant implications for the future of organizations following the COVID-19 crisis.
Distributed workforce among enterprises worldwide before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
The source indicates that the graph was modeled based on responses to three Gartner surveys: (1) Gartner COVID-19 Crisis Benchmarking Against Your Peers Webinar Poll; (2) 2020 Gartner Cost Cutting and Employee Experience Survey; (3) COVID-19 How Finance Leaders are Responding to the Emerging Situation Webinar Poll
The source does not provide the original wording of the question posed during the survey.
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Gartner. (October 29, 2020). Distributed workforce among enterprises worldwide before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184602/distributed-workplace-enterprises-coronavirus/
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