April 23, 2021 at 12:22 PM Shares3 Last year’s pandemic-prompted transition to remote working was a stressful move of necessity for most firms. Seemingly overnight, the streets were empty, grocery stores looked like scenes out of a zombie apocalypse movie, and we were all stuck trying to figure out how to do our jobs over Zoom with kids and pets running through the background. Our industry mostly got it figured out over the following year, shifting our practices online, cutting back on expenses to reflect the newly dispersed employee pool, and embracing new technology. All it took was a global pandemic to force our deeply tradition-bound industry to embrace rapid transformational change.