Bosses, you’re wrong: Remote workers are more productive than your in-office employees – By Jane Thier (Fortune) / Oct 20, 2022
Attempts to turn back the clock to pre-pandemic norms in the workplace is a step in the wrong direction.
That’s according to the latest quarterly Pulse survey from Slack’s think tank, Future Forum, which surveyed 10,000 global white-collar workers. Contrary to many bosses’ beliefs, it found that workers are actually more productive when they can work from home. Those with full schedule flexibility showed 29% higher productivity scores than employees with no flexibility at all, and remote and hybrid workers report 4% higher productivity than their fully in-office counterparts.
Employees with flexible schedules reported a 53% greater ability to focus and three times better work-life balance than those without. Remote and hybrid workers were also likelier than fully in-person workers to say their company culture has improved since the pandemic. The chief reason why? Their companies’ flexible work policies, of course.
It means that the executives who have been pushing workers back to their desks are on the wrong track. This may be unwelcome news to the CEOs who remain intransigent about returning to the office, where they believe it’s easier to lead. Many have “productivity paranoia,” convinced that remote employees are slacking off—even when ample research proves otherwise.
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