Organisations Shift Approach to Working from Home in Post-Covid World
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More precise estimates tend to vary, but it’s safe to say that significantly fewer people were working from home before the pandemic. The Economist puts that figure around 5% and says by Spring of 2020, the percentage of workers operating from home was up to sixty. In this article, we’re going to look at how working from home has impacted culture, productivity, and the profits of organisations. Many of the numbers we’ll use here come from a comprehensive study carried out by three economists in the US. The results are staggering, even given the events of the last eighteen months or so. What seems astoundingly clear is that things have changed a lot, and they’re unlikely ever to be the same again. The numbers and attitudes behind the COVID-19 working from home revolution Economists José Maria Barrero, Nick Bloom, and Steven Davis surveyed over 30,000 American … Continued