David Jenyns describes practical benefits of remote work from his experience: moving out of the office cut rent and lowered overheads; offers greater flexibility (attracting family-oriented staff and enabling flexible hours); and building offshore/virtual teams increases a business's margin for error compared with high local overheads. The piece is observational and anecdotal rather than prescriptive.
I remember when I'd sit down with Adrian and he's right next to me, we're editing and I'm like, oh, can we tweak this? There's definitely a different dynamic if you're in the room, but part of it. There's a lot of benefits to gain as well. We moved out of the office, we dropped our rent significantly because we weren't doing it. Everybody was working virtually. We attracted a different type of people. A lot of my team members are very family orientated and they appreciate being able to work from home and have those flexible hours. So, yeah, it's different things. I don't know if there is an exact right or wrong, but definitely working with offshore talent gives you a margin for error, typically that a lot of businesses don't have. If you're working all local in a space you've got very high overheads, you don't really have much room to wiggle. Whereas building up that offshore team and working virtually and significantly lowering your overheads just gives you more margin for error and to figure things out.
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