Working remotely means the possibility of being available for an afterschool ice cream run with your kids. We’ve talked about it for years but now we might actually achieve it. This opens the job market for rural workers and those who don’t have transportation options. Geography no longer dictates employability. Remote work allows a nonprofit to hire the right person for the job even if that person lives far away from the office. Pants-optional sessions are great ways to “meet the funder.” Finally, a webinar eliminates the annoyances of getting all dressed up and hauling across town to the gathering. And virtual conferences can hold many more people than can fit in a physical space. A nationwide Zoom call can allow scattered “stakeholders” to take part in planning and can open up conversations that would have been impossible if everyone had to gather in a room. Savings can be personal: employees often have to carry significant travel costs to get to and from the office-with remote work, they save money. This means no more Manhattan rental costs and the release of money for other programs and services. One accomplished and respected New York City nonprofit has decided to become totally virtual. Nonprofit managers might consider ways and means to do their business over the internet and take advantage of the “hardship” in ways that might yield benefits going forward. There might be an upside to continued remote work. Nonprofits have company: Many major corporations and school systems are also trying to do strategic return planning in the midst of the evolving COVID-19 ecosystem. Some fundraising events that were all set to “go live” have been cancelled or have reverted to online formats.
Recent surveys suggest that fully half of nonprofits will probably continue to work remotely. Some organizations have pushed back the date for coming back to the office.
Nonprofits managers are as confused as the rest of society about returning to the office. Now what’s needed are concrete and reliable plans for what comes next. The NonProfit Times Thursday | September 23rd, 2021Įveryone has had 18 months of the pandemic to learn Zoom, play with fanciful backgrounds, laugh at jokes about wearing (or not wearing) pants to the virtual meeting.
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