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WotD: Tipping point
Well, it has been on the horizon for a while now, and perhaps we’ve finally arrived at the tipping point.
A tipping point is reached after a series of small changes added together cause a much more significant shift.
Slowly but surely, technology has been changing the way we live and work.
In many ways, tech has improved our lives.
I, for one, never want to live without a dishwasher again, that’s for sure.
On a much larger scale, perhaps even a global scale, this coronavirus pandemic has forced many white-collar workers to work from home.
Previous to 2020, professionals and companies looked at remote work as something for the gig economy, the self-employed like me, or freelancers.
The lockdowns were a tipping point that caused companies to either adopt a remote work system or shut down entirely.
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Utilizing a remote work system and allowing employees to work from home enabled companies to weather the lockdown and employees to maintain their employment.
Can you imagine how many people would be on unemployment insurance if remote work never existed?
Naturally, there are two sides to every coin, and some naysayers believe life will return to normal once humanity has discovered how to either beat or live with coronavirus.
I can’t entirely agree with them because once a tipping point is reached, there’s no going back.
We, my readers, have reached the age of remote work.
It’s a brave new world for many of you, but let me assure you, working from home is excellent.
Now we only have to wait 25 years for the big guns in Japan to realize it.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 63.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.