Opinion: Remote working could be a game changer for local towns in these uncertain times

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John Evoy of Grow Remote says remote working should be central to plans to future-proof rural Ireland.

John Evoy AS THE WORLD continues to lurch from one crisis to another; from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine, to the cost of living crisis, many experts are now predicting that we are entering into a recession.

While the public discussion about remote work continues to centre around whether the office is better or the challenges of hybrid working, the potential social and economic impact of remote work for a large portion of our population seems to have slipped out of the conversation. The debate around remote work needs to centre firmly and unrelentingly on how we can grab the opportunity that these thousands of remote jobs present to our local communities.

The problem is that these jobs are not advertised in the traditional manner – you won’t see them in your local or national newspapers or hear them advertised on local or regional radio stations. The good news is that everyone everywhere can help. Until now, local job creation was the remit of government agencies or a few determined community groups who came together and set up local enterprises centres or business incubation spaces.

 

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