Telecommuting in a post-COVID U.S. will be radically different. And that's a very good thing.

When COVID is through torturing the U.S. — which will likely be late ’21 to mid ’22, depending on when a vaccine and good treatments can be discovered, tested, approved and mass-distributed — business execs are going to find themselves running very different companies in very different ways. And the vast majority of the burden to deliver the infrastructure for these new operations will fall to IT. So, yes, IT execs need to start talking with other C-levels now and figure out what they want their post-COVID company to look like.

The timing is interesting, in that it’s just about enough time for companies to implement all of these changes safely and securely. Let’s start with the most obvious change: corporate telecommuting. By the way, “working from home” (WFH) is exactly the term you want to use if you want to guarantee that it will fail. More on that in a moment.

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