Patrick McKenna, a partner at HighRidge Global and an entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies focused on remote workers, thinks a more even geographic distribution of the mid-tech workforce could help start to bridge the political divides in our country. McKenna, needless to say, is a strong proponent of remote, part-time workers. He offered anecdotal evidence about the demographics best-served by cloud-based customer services companies like LiveOps, which McKenna helped start in 2002. All the agents needed, McKenna emphasized, was a headset and a home computer to access the digital economy, a setup which was particularly attractive to rural workers who didn’t want long commutes, and stay-at-home parents who needed flexible hours. McKenna believes that “the power dynamic isn’t only one way” between independent workers and corporations.