As people across the planet continue to tackle the coronavirus crisis, many are wondering how the pandemic is impacting the work culture and what they should do. Tech entrepreneur and investor Bilal Junaid shares some significant information on how the pandemic has paved the way for remote working culture. He also provides an insight as to where the world is headed, what other businesses are faring, and, most importantly, what customers in the pandemic world want. Let’s dive in.
Bilal points out that the in the post-pandemic world, many companies will realize that offices were not as vital as once thought. Many will embrace the remote working culture. More and more people have jumped on the bandwagon of remote working. Many remote-first companies such as Github have been thriving and many other companies are likely to follow suit. Bilal says that these companies are now tweaking their strategies to include and increase the use of social media in order to play to the pandemic’s role in favoring the work-from-home culture. Bilal shares, “The impact of the pandemic across industries is such that now companies, especially those that were reluctant before, have to now consider allowing employees to work from home by default.”
Furthermore, companies are now finding themselves leveraging social media for everything from generating leads to customer service to content creation. Bilal asserts that users and customers all over the world are already undergoing this new paradigm shift.
Bilal is a well-known investor and entrepreneur who has deployed millions of dollars in various tech companies in US, Asia, and EU and areas from blockchain to AR and VR. He is on the board of a few fintech startups in US and Asia.