COVID-19 pandemic may linger on for the foreseeable future.A vast amount of Canadians sent home to work remotely during the pandemic now prefer to continue to do so in a post-COVID-19 world, and many more businesses intend to allow them to keep doing so.
Poll of Canadian businesses suggests work from home may be here to stay A recent poll from Accenture found that over 60 per cent of Canadians now preferred some sort of hybrid or remote work model, as many organizations plan for employees to return to their workplace.In June, a poll from the Business Development Bank of Canada found that 74 per cent of businesses would let their employees work from home even after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that more than half of all employees would like.