Internet Entrepreneur Lior Poly shares his take on the new Working from Home Culture and what it means for the future of the office as we knew it.
There is an air to 2021. So far, we keep hearing the phrase "back to normal", repeatedly. When we get back to normal, the economy will pick up, the children will go back to school and half a dozen bluebirds will flutter in through the window and start doing our housework for us, Disney style.
But the hard facts are that we don't know when all this will end. We don't know what's coming next. We don't know if there ever will be a "back".
Creating the New Normal
As Lior Poly says:
"We don't plan, we are planning."
Lior thinks that the best niche for affiliate marketing should always be something general, that appeals to a wide mix of people. Ideas like this don't tend to go out of fashion as others do. Make sure your affiliates have something people want and that the market has plenty of competition in there. Competition isn't something to be afraid of... it's evidence that the niche is in demand.
Lior is a self-made man, having become a successful internet entrepreneur using nothing but his own wits and an old laptop. At 16, he was making his first money using Google AdSense. By 17, he had stepped up his game to incorporate the affiliate marketing model. At 18, he had saved enough to buy himself a course in app development - and the rest was history.
Now, in his established success, Lior Poly is looking forward to the years to come. Along with other investors, he is monitoring the situation closely to figure out where to hedge his bets.
The Future of Office Life
There can be no doubt that the office building as we knew it has vanished. Unless you are involved in an essential business, you are not likely to be working in an office any time soon. Working from home has become as common as ordering a takeaway on a Saturday night as a treat. The flip side of this is that businesses aren't stupid. They are looking at the costs they are saving by ditching the bricks and mortar establishments and moving into a digitally adaptable environment.
When workers can be virtually present without having to, he heated, given light, electricity, and facilities, then why wouldn't the average business jump on that? It's a saving of thousands and thousands of dollars, month after month. In terms of monetary worth, WFH culture is saving millions.
But it won't be this way forever. Firms are waking to the idea that they need to keep an eye on these employees, even though they aren't in the office. This means we are going to see a varied blend of new software programs. The majority of these will be geared towards monitoring and encouraging employee productivity.
On top of this, laptops really need to evolve to be able to keep up with the workload. Lior Poly admits having gone through several laptops in his life. He works them hard. When a machine is in use for 10-12 hours every day it wears out quickly. We can expect WFH culture to bring us plenty of advancements in that field, too.
