Working from Home Boosts Productivity A study revealed that, in comparison with the employees who came into the office, the at-home workers were not only happier and less likely to quit but also more productive.... One-third of the productivity increase, we think, was due to having a quieter environment, which makes it easier to process calls. [The study involved a call center.] At home people don’t experience what we call the “cake in the break room” effect. Offices are actually incredibly distracting places. The other two-thirds can be attributed to the fact that the people at home worked more hours. They started earlier, took shorter breaks, and worked until the end of the day. They had no commute. They didn’t run errands at lunch. Sick days for employees working from home plummeted. Search “working remotely” on the web, and everything that comes up will be supernegative and say that telecommuters don’t work as hard as people in the office. But actually, it’s quite the opposite.... JetBlue allows folks to work as far as three hours from headquarters—close enough to come in now and again but a much bigger radius from which it can draw applicants. When I asked the people at JetBlue about this policy, they said it helped them gain access to educated, high-ability mothers who wanted flexibility in their jobs. The airline believes this policy has improved the quality of its workforce. https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-raise-productivity-let-more-employees-work-from-home
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 02:48:37 +0000
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