There is an argument that remote working encourages people to close themselves out from the world around them. It’s almost accuses some of being antisocial, living in a potentially dystopian remote world. Why leave the comfort of home with your widescreen monitor, fully stocked fridge, and the comfort of your athleisure wear to interact with the outside world? For me, third spaces are absolutely critical to remote workers, particularly those that work from home (WFH).

Remote working is about delivering on objectives, about finding ways of working that drive your personal productivity. But to remain productive it’s important to evolve your ways of working by experimenting to see what works best for you.

Remote working is all about flexibility and its success is built on understanding how teams and individuals can be most productive and deliver on key objectives. However, not everyone works on the same schedule and rhythms, and timezones complicate things even further. So how can you maximise the benefits of remote working, and minimise the challenges of working in distributed team globally? Let me introduce you to working asynchronously, or simply ‘async’.

For many remote working will be their future of work, but for those with more of an entrepreneurial spirit remote will also be the future of global business.

Five top reasons why some people prefer remote working are Flexibility, Work-Life Balance, Increased Productivity, Cost Saving, and Access to Global Talent.