Tapping Into Innovation

Working remotely can take pressure off a city’s infrastructure – and help save resources

- Colin Thornton

In March 2018, rating’s agency Moody’s warned that the water crisis affecting Cape Town would cause the city’s borrowing to rise sharply – and the provincial economy to shrink – the longer the situation lasted.

For Cape Town’s business owners and managers, it is now imperative to find ways to alleviate not only operating costs in a stressed local economy, but overall pressure on the city’s infrastructure. Enabling employees to work remotely, either from home or from a different province, may be one way to ease both of these burdens.