Why some Minnesota companies are ditching the office and going remote, forever New model has upsides when location s irrelevant. January 30, 2021 2:39pm Text size Copy shortlink:
As weeks turned to months for office workers staying home during the pandemic, the leaders of Qumu Corp., a Minneapolis company that sells videoconferencing services, took stock and then made a leap.
In December, they gave employees the go-ahead to work from anywhere from now on, saying they were shutting down the headquarters and two of the company s other three offices around the world. We ll be one of many, many going down this road, said Jason Karp, Qumu s chief commercial officer and chief counsel. There are so many benefits that flow through it.