NPR Article about Remote Work
07-01-2020, 04:09 AM
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NPR Article about Remote Work
Interesting article as America shifts to remote work, and refuses to let COVID shut down business. No, not all business can work remotely, I get that. By keeping business open, the damage to the economy is less, and that benefits everybody.
Article states that half of the American workforce is now working remotely.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2...k-here-to-stay
Article states that half of the American workforce is now working remotely.
...there's also the bullish case for remote work. Brynjolfsson, who has spent years studying the intersection of technology and economics, points to its many advantages. Workers don't have to waste time or resources commuting. And they can live where they want. Companies can save money on commercial real estate, which is insanely expensive in places like Manhattan and Silicon Valley (side note: this also shifts the cost of real estate to workers, but that's another discussion). A virtual office offers a virtually unlimited labor pool for companies to recruit from. In econ jargon, there are better "matching" opportunities. "You get to tap into the best people wherever they are," Brynjolfsson says. Moreover, he argues, this shift is pushing companies to focus on performance and output as opposed to just "clocking hours."
07-01-2020, 07:32 AM
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Yes telework is certainly helping. It's kept my wife employed, although she hates it and it makes her job very frustrating. Her organization's employees are pushing to go back to the office. Management is stalling, due to covid risk/liability.
She does complex work, involving many outside organizations, so the lack of meetings and personal interaction is more problematic than it would be for jobs such as data entry.
She does complex work, involving many outside organizations, so the lack of meetings and personal interaction is more problematic than it would be for jobs such as data entry.
07-01-2020, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Yes telework is certainly helping. It's kept my wife employed, although she hates it and it makes her job very frustrating. Her organization's employees are pushing to go back to the office. Management is stalling, due to covid risk/liability.
She does complex work, involving many outside organizations, so the lack of meetings and personal interaction is more problematic than it would be for jobs such as data entry.
She does complex work, involving many outside organizations, so the lack of meetings and personal interaction is more problematic than it would be for jobs such as data entry.
My wife has done it for six years. That said it works if you have good people and through downsizing etc they have a good team. When they first started doing it they had a guy who would be in a file (locking everyone else out by default) and go get lunch without getting out of the file. Finally he was let go during downsizing but if you have less then stellar employees as Rick says it can force you mad.
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