But 60 percent of businesses that had no remote program in place before the COVID-19 will look at their practices. The survey of 12 questions, collected from August 11 through August 18, had 300 participants representing a variety of organizations across the country. 

Forty-three percent had no remote work programs in place before the pandemic and only 7 percent offered them to their entire workforce.

School scheduling will continue to be a major consideration in work scheduling, with sixty-five person of respondents planning to offer flexibility for employees with school scheduling issues while 18 percent were unsure of how they will manage these. 

Thirteen percent will work with employees on a case-by-cases basis and encourage them to do whatever possible to report back to the office with only 4 percent saying they will require employees to manage childcare issues and report back to the office as usual. 

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind