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FROM THE EDITOR
Work From Home, or
Go Home from Work?
IN THIS MONTH'S magazine, we address some of the issues associated with the workplace
disruption we all have experienced. Whether you changed your own work environment as a
result of the pandemic, or you experienced changes in relationships with colleagues, clients,
customers, and companies, the variations in how we do our jobs certainly impacted everyone.
Brian Hershman's article (www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/21230254) discusses some of the
strengths and weaknesses of remote working. In particularly, he feels that a solid office
culture, teamwork, and excellent technology are the keys to the success of remote and
hybrid workplaces.
Nellie Akalp, CEO of CorpNet,
approaches the remote work topic
with regard to clients who own
their own businesses and who
work remotely in her article (www.
cpapracticeadvisor.com/21230816)
on digital nomads. What type of
business structure will work for
the digital nomad, and what recommendations
should you make to your
clients who don't stay put?
The workplace as a whole seems
uncertain about how best to move
forward. While many companies and
organizations are requiring that their
employees be vaccinated, which is
setting off its own kind of stir, the
accounting profession is mixed in its
responses to the WFH phenomenon.
In the spring of 2020 (yes,
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2020!), the CPA Firm Management
Association (CPAFMA) released a
booklet called A Guide to Re-opening
Your CPA Firm (https://tinyurl.com/
wx5x7fkp) which laid out suggestions
for inspecting and cleaning
offices, instituting health checks, and
mitigating anxiety for those workers
who were expected to return to work
in early summer of 2020. While the
release of that guide might have been
a bit premature, at least it laid out
some general procedures for those
firms that wanted to prepare for
getting back to the office.
Alternatively, this past spring,
the Virginia Society of Certified
Public Accountants (VSCPA) conducted
a survey (https://tinyurl.
com/4u8zsrjn) of more than 600 of its
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for remote workers and improving
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want to return to the office are key
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Interestingly, a pre-COVID-19
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firm Airtasker, found that remote
employees work 1.4 more days per
month than those based in an office.
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ers who worry about productivity of
remote workers.
Earlier this year, results from a
Gartner survey (https://tinyurl.com/
fv6rrj2w) indicated that, " Service
employees who traditionally did
not have many work-from-home
opportunities, have become used to
it and like it, and the majority (about
70%) wish to continue. " And so, in
addition to creating a guide like the
aforementioned one about returning
to the workplace, you may need to
consider creating a strategic guide
for maintaining a WFH workforce.
One thing we know for certain,
this is still new territory for most
CPA firms, and each firm will need
to reckon with its own team and that
team's wishes for workplace safety,
productivity, and success as the firm
moves forward in a post-pandemic
world.
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