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Studies Suggest Working From Home Is the Way of the Future

The pandemic is forcing a sea change in how business leaders view the traditional work environment. It's also raising the argument about where we will end up working post-pandemic.

Consider this recent declaration from Salesforce. In his Feb. 9 blog post, Brent Hyder, Salesforce president and chief people officer, wrote: "As we enter a new year, we must continue to go forward with agility, creativity and a beginner's mind--and that includes how we cultivate our culture. An immersive workspace is no longer limited to a desk in our Towers; the 9-to-5 workday is dead; and the employee experience is about more than ping-pong tables and snacks."

Salesforce will offer its employees flextime, fully remote, and in-office options. However, not all executives are on board with the concept of a distributed or hybrid work environment. Last month, at a virtual panel held during the World Economic Forum, two executives from major financial institutions said that working at home is losing its effectiveness.

Jes Staley, chief executive at Barclays, argued that working from home is "working as well as it is, but I don't think it's sustainable." Echoing that sentiment, Mary Erdoes, chief executive at J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, stated that employees' ability to focus "is fraying. It is hard. It takes a lot of inner strength and sustainability every single day to continue to focus and to not have the energy you get from being around other people."

The other side of the WFH coin.

But according to Thomas Moran, chief strategy officer at Prodoscore, which provides employee visibility and productivity intelligence software, year-over-year surveys demonstrate that working from home is not only sustainable, it also delivers increased productivity.

"We analyzed over 105 million data points collected from 30,000 U.S.-based Prodoscore users, revealing a 5 percent increase in productivity year over year, challenging the assumption by business leaders that employees working from home are less productive than when working on-site in an office," said Moran.

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/is ... uture.html

Working from Home is the Way of the Future

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson argue that remote working is not some cooky brainchild of software developers. "The future, quite literally, belongs to those who get it."

https://bigthink.com/think-tank/working ... the-future

[alanjh595]

This is being milked huge.
Call any gov't agency like EI etc and see how long you are placed on hold and how many times during the call you are put on hold-as in 15 minutes EACH TIME for information that would take only a few minutes if people were actually at work in the office.
Milked.
Huge.

How many times have you personally called EI ?

Being a trucker, you are pretty much stuck with going to the office everyday. I can't see that driving a truck could possibly be done from home.

[alanjh595]

I see......do you sell meth and antiques from a store or from home?

Do you pay EI on the income?

NO?

Why have EI on speed dial?

[tantor]

Well get used to eating at home and cooking for yourself because the restaurant industry and hospitality industry has to have people at work. Foreign workers who want to work will take up those jobs and when the hand outs from the government run out we will never hear the end of the crying because no one will hire them. There are thousands of jobs that can't be done from home and eventually those who can work from home will feel the repercussions in a big way. The social nanny always runs out of money because it fosters lazy people with no ambition. People need to stop acting like earning a living is a bad thing. Right from the days of the pioneers if you didn't dig in and do the back breaking work that was required to survive you didn't. What a soft and weak society we have emerging today. No ambition, no morals and no spine. Let's not forget I will do the minimum but expect the maximum. Good luck with that.

[BC Landlord]

I guess, if asked to go back to work, some will comply, but many will stay home for as long as there are government payouts. So, we end up with staffing shortages, while posting big unemployment numbers. What we are seeing is a living example of why UBI (universal basic income) schemes are doomed to failure.

[MCB]

Some of us never stopped going to work!

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Flexible Work Environments Survey

The pandemic has super-spread disruption, transforming the way we work like never before. In March 2020, what was long considered improbable for many organizations—a remote workforce became an immediate reality.

Now with the vaccine rollout well under way, organizations are beginning to consider what the workplace of the not-so-distant future will look like.

The Conference Board of Canada asked organizations across the country whether they’re planning on calling employees back to the office, offer remote work, or a combination of both.

Here’s what we found.

https://www.conferenceboard.ca/focus-ar ... sDGY-hFrxO

Working Through COVID-19: The Next Normal

Document Highlights

• In-person work has long been long considered the norm, and hybrid or remote work a perk offered by few. The pandemic flipped this norm on its head. On average, among organizations we surveyed, the proportion of their remote workforce grew tenfold during the pandemic.
• With the vaccine rollout well under way, organizations are beginning to make decisions about a return to work. Only 6 per cent are planning to bring their entire workforce back to the office.

Employees who worked from home throughout the pandemic have reaped the benefits of more flexibility in how, where, and when they work. They have been vocal about wanting to work from home, at least some of the time, once a return to the office is possible. And organizations are responding; the majority plan to offer hybrid or remote work to at least some employees post-vaccine rollout.