Working from home polarizing; 25% hate it, especially managers
4 years, 6 months ago

Working from home polarizing; 25% hate it, especially managers

NL Times  

Opinions in the Netherlands are divided on working from home. Especially managers and supervisors are finding the home office a dissatisfying experience, according to a survey by Arbo Unie, BNR reports. According to Jan van den Hoogen, those who don't like working from home mainly miss the social aspect of going to work. This requires new policies - working from home is not a question of software and video calling," Van den Hoogen said. So keep taking good care of yourself, make sure that the workplace is tidy and that the rituals remain in order: keep dressing like normal, compensate your travel time by taking a walk," Van den Hoogen said to the broadcaster.

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Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash

ABC  

More of us have been in paid work this past year than ever before. The jump in working from home Before the pandemic, in 2019, the share of the workforce who usually work at least partly from home was 25 per cent. The proportion of mothers with children under five working at least partly from home has leapt from 31 …

Remote staff pay for shared office space to escape working from home
1 year, 6 months ago

Remote staff pay for shared office space to escape working from home

The Telegraph  

Once a haunt of trendy start-ups and freelance creatives, “co-working spaces” have recently attracted a new sort of clientele. It suggests that more than three years since offices across the country closed their doors during the first Covid lockdown, with many having never returned full time, fatigued staff are looking to escape working from home. “Working from home really started …

Employers still allowing work-from-home, but not as much as employees want
1 year, 9 months ago

Employers still allowing work-from-home, but not as much as employees want

NL Times  

Employees who want to work from home can usually do so for part of the week, but often not as much as they’d like. Employers allow their staff some time working from home but prefer to see them at the office, EenVandaag concluded after surveying over 5,000 people who can work from home, including 300 entrepreneurs with staff. Most employees, …

Worker sparks debate after saying it is ‘pointless’ to force employees to return to office
1 year, 11 months ago

Worker sparks debate after saying it is ‘pointless’ to force employees to return to office

The Independent  

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Is work from home ruining our mental health? Here's what an expert says
2 years, 3 months ago

Is work from home ruining our mental health? Here's what an expert says

Hindustan Times  

With Covid cases on the wane, offices are slowly opening up and many of them are adopting hybrid work model. While work from home has its own set of benefits as it saves commute time, prevents exposure to harmful pollutants and toxins, allows flexibility in routine, and may be improve productivity, experts say it takes a toll on one's mental …

Working from home DOES damage your mental health
2 years, 4 months ago

Working from home DOES damage your mental health

Daily Mail  

Working days that bleed into the evening. Speaking on the podcast Diary Of A CEO last week, the author of The Tipping Point and Outliers said: ‘It’s very hard to feel necessary when you’re physically disconnected,’ adding that ‘as we face the battle that all organisations are facing now in getting people back into the office, it’s really hard to …

The people who hate working from home
2 years, 6 months ago

The people who hate working from home

BBC  

The people who hate working from home Getty Images The loudest voices may be remote-work advocates, but plenty of other people can’t get back to the office fast enough. Not to leave your house for long periods of time, I don’t think it’s good for you.” Getty Images Working from home can be isolating for many people, who crave the …

Employers, unions agree to let people work from home if reasonable: report
2 years, 9 months ago

Employers, unions agree to let people work from home if reasonable: report

NL Times  

The right to work from home is a big step closer in the Netherlands. Employers and trade unions have agreed in the Social and Economic Council to allow employees to work from home if their request is "reasonable and fair," sources told RTL Nieuws. The right to work from home will not apply to professions in which it is difficult …

Four in 10 employees say working from home is here to stay
2 years, 9 months ago

Four in 10 employees say working from home is here to stay

Dutch News  

The coronavirus restrictions may be lifted, but four in 10 commuters say they would like to continue to work part of the week at home, according to new research. In particular, people who travel to work by public transport are more likely to want to spend time working from home, the report, drawn up by research group Newcom, said. The …

Four in 10 employees say working from home is here to stay
2 years, 9 months ago

Four in 10 employees say working from home is here to stay

Dutch News  

The coronavirus restrictions may be lifted, but four in 10 commuters say they would like to continue to work part of the week at home, according to new research. In particular, people who travel to work by public transport are more likely to want to spend time working from home, the report, drawn up by research group Newcom, said. The …

Work from Home Ends: Why People are Quitting their Jobs Instead of Going back to Office
2 years, 9 months ago

Work from Home Ends: Why People are Quitting their Jobs Instead of Going back to Office

News 18  

Work from Home Ends: After almost 2 years of working from home, employees seem to prefer working from home over higher salaries and are even willing to quit their job if that option is taken out. “WFH should be considered as part of Return to Office strategy,” said Aditya Misra, chief executive of CIEL HR, which had close to 2,000 …

Remote working new normal; 82% employees prefer working from home: Study
2 years, 11 months ago

Remote working new normal; 82% employees prefer working from home: Study

The Hindu  

With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing unprecedented changes in work life, a study has revealed that 82% respondents admitted that they prefer working from home to going back to the office. The remote work trend was initially forced on employees due to the pandemic, however, after two years remote working has become a new normal and as things settled down new …

How To Trick Yourself Into Thinking Working From Home Is Fun Again
3 years ago

How To Trick Yourself Into Thinking Working From Home Is Fun Again

Huff Post  

Amid the stress of a raging global pandemic, working from home may have initially provided some solace. While it may feel trite, Klapow suggests reflecting on the positive aspects of working from home. “Ask yourself, ‘What can I do here that I could never do at work?’” Working from home doesn’t mean forgoing all structure. But it’s imperative to try …

7 best practices for working from home
3 years ago

7 best practices for working from home

India Today  

Saying that the pandemic has changed the way we live and work is old news. While some may have returned to their normal work routine, many continue to work from home or are undergoing the work routine in a phased manner. Here are a few practices that can be implemented every day to take away the ‘woe’ from ‘working from …

Hybrid home working is here to stay, companies say
3 years, 1 month ago

Hybrid home working is here to stay, companies say

Dutch News  

Some two-thirds of companies where it is possible to work both at home and at the office will continue to do so, according to new research by national statistics agency CBS. Smaller firms, accounting for some 60% of Dutch jobs, Companies focusing on information and communication are most likely to go for home working, as are real estate companies and …

Hybrid home working is here to stay, companies say
3 years, 1 month ago

Hybrid home working is here to stay, companies say

Dutch News  

Some two-thirds of companies where it is possible to work both at home and at the office will continue to do so, according to new research by national statistics agency CBS. Smaller firms, accounting for some 60% of Dutch jobs, Companies focusing on information and communication are most likely to go for home working, as are real estate companies and …

Do we even want to return to the office?
3 years, 4 months ago

Do we even want to return to the office?

Live Mint  

Offices of the pre-pandemic era may soon be relics, if employees have their way. A recent survey, Randstad Employer Brand Research 2021, which included 190,000 participants across the world, found that 52% of employees prefer working remotely to going to the office again. According to Microsoft’s first annual Work Trend Index, released last month, 74% of employees in India want …

Working from home is here to stay, two more surveys show
3 years, 5 months ago

Working from home is here to stay, two more surveys show

Dutch News  

Two more surveys on home working in the Netherlands again demonstrate that the practice is likely to continue once the coronavirus pandemic is under control, with the support of both employers and members of staff. The government’s socio-cultural think-tank SCP also published a report on home working on Wednesday which showed working at home allowed people to better balance their …

Working from home is here to stay, two more surveys show
3 years, 5 months ago

Working from home is here to stay, two more surveys show

Dutch News  

Two more surveys on home working in the Netherlands again demonstrate that the practice is likely to continue once the coronavirus pandemic is under control, with the support of both employers and members of staff. The government’s socio-cultural think-tank SCP also published a report on home working on Wednesday which showed working at home allowed people to better balance their …

Only 10 percent of home-based workers want to return to office full time: FNV
3 years, 6 months ago

Only 10 percent of home-based workers want to return to office full time: FNV

NL Times  

Only 10 percent of employees want to return to the office full-time after the coronavirus pandemic, a poll by trade union FNV showed. 70% of those surveyed indicated they would prefer to work in a hybrid regime of partly at home and partly at the office in the future. 20 percent of the respondents stated they wouldn’t want to return …

Here's how working from home makes you more productive
3 years, 8 months ago

Here's how working from home makes you more productive

Hindustan Times  

The great work-from-home experiment occasioned by the pandemic has divided opinion in the corporate suite and sparked endless debates about whether employees work as effectively from the kitchen table as they do from the office. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Solomon has called the new arrangements “an aberration” that the investment bank will “correct as quickly as …

Quarter of people who can work from home still asked to go to office, union says
3 years, 11 months ago

Quarter of people who can work from home still asked to go to office, union says

NL Times  

27 percent of people who can work from home are still asked by their employers to come into the office. 43 percent still go in to the office at least part of the week, according to a survey trade union did among 1,200 of its members who are able to work from home, Trouw reports. "While we are working hard …

One in four people to work from home permanently
4 years ago

One in four people to work from home permanently

The Telegraph  

As many as a quarter of British employees could end up working from home for good, bosses anticipate, as companies plan for permanent changes after Covid. Almost every chief finance officer - 97pc - surveyed by Deloitte expects more flexible and home working in the long-term. Sectors have been able to maintain quite a high degree of effectiveness operating from …

Working from home just as efficient as being in the office, employers say
4 years, 3 months ago

Working from home just as efficient as being in the office, employers say

The Telegraph  

The Government’s drive to get workers back to the office has been dealt a fresh blow as new research reveals almost two thirds of employers believe staff are at least as productive when they work from home. More than half of workers expect they will never return to working five days a week in the office, separate research by broadband …

The campaign to encourage people to stop working from home is ill-judged and ill-timed
4 years, 4 months ago

The campaign to encourage people to stop working from home is ill-judged and ill-timed

The Independent  

Whatever happened to the protective arm around the British people? The campaign to “encourage” people to stop working from home and start working from work is illogical, ill-judged and ill-timed. Businesses such as sandwich bars, pubs, dry cleaners, shops, cabs, gyms and many others that rely on office workers popping out in the lunch hours or after work are facing …

We may prefer working from home but most of us will go back to the office in the end
4 years, 4 months ago

We may prefer working from home but most of us will go back to the office in the end

The Independent  

Only one in six staff have returned to the office in British cities, according to one survey – and the government’s desperation to raise that number prompted one anonymous cabinet minister to say something foolish about working from home: “Companies will realise some people weren’t working as hard as they thought. Even without the threatening language, Boris Johnson’s attempt to …

Is work from home feasible in the long run?
4 years, 6 months ago

Is work from home feasible in the long run?

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdowns have made work from home an imperative for several industries. In a conversation moderated by K. Bharat Kumar, Ashwini Deshpande and Ramkumar Ramamoorthy discuss whether work from home is likely to become a constant even in a post-COVID future. Ramkumar Ramamoorthy : While much of the focus seems to be on work from …

Is work from home here to stay? | The Hindu Parley Podcast
4 years, 6 months ago

Is work from home here to stay? | The Hindu Parley Podcast

The Hindu  

The Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdowns have made work from home an imperative for several industries. For those industries and job profiles for which work from home is possible, has the concept come to stay, is the question before us now… Running up to 2025, a large IT services firm in India has said it would have about 75% …

Many Workers Would Prefer To Keep Working From Home At Least Some Of The Time
4 years, 7 months ago

Many Workers Would Prefer To Keep Working From Home At Least Some Of The Time

Huff Post  

nadia_bormotova via Getty Images Americans answered questions about how the coronavirus pandemic has shaped their ideas about working from home all the time or returning to an office. In his company announcement of switching mostly to permanent remote work, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke declared, “Office centricity is over.” But is a fully remote workforce what American professionals actually want? Although …

Work-from-home is nice, but the office wants you back
4 years, 7 months ago

Work-from-home is nice, but the office wants you back

The Hindu  

As we begin preparing to take advantage of the relaxation in lockdown to resume work, revive our businesses, or resurrect our social lives, companies and employees are trying to visualise the future of the workplace. Employees of a few companies did work entirely from home, but the number was not significant compared to the size of the organised sector. Tech …

Half of NL residents want to keep working from home after coronavirus crisis
4 years, 8 months ago

Half of NL residents want to keep working from home after coronavirus crisis

NL Times  

Working from home seems to be a hit for many employees in the Netherlands. 53 percent are positive about working from home and 49 percent want to keep doing so, at least partly, after the coronavirus crisis is over, according to a survey by Nationale Vacaturebank​ and Intermediair​ among over a thousand Dutch workers, AD reports. But now that a …

Why are some people better at working from home than others?
4 years, 8 months ago

Why are some people better at working from home than others?

BBC  

Why are some people better at working from home than others? People with high frustration tolerances are generally also conscientious workers, who particularly succeed at remote work “If you’re easily getting frustrated, then you’re going to run away from and use avoidance as a coping mechanism, which will shoot you in the foot,” says Pychyl. Highly social, extroverted people may …

Working from home may be more productive – but nothing beats the conversations we used to have in person
4 years, 8 months ago

Working from home may be more productive – but nothing beats the conversations we used to have in person

The Independent  

My favourite American economist, Tyler Cowen, has dug out a research paper from six years ago about the benefits of working from home. The study found that home working led to a significant improvement in performance, as well as higher worker satisfaction and therefore lower staff turnover – but that home workers were less likely to be promoted. Many of …

COVID-19: Work from home, a difficult strategy for non-IT companies to adopt
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19: Work from home, a difficult strategy for non-IT companies to adopt

The Hindu  

The work from home strategy is well established in the IT sector, but it won’t be easy to adopt for the manufacturing sector in the wake of COVID- 19, due to various infrastructure bottlenecks, experts say. Aditya Narayan Mishra, CEO of staffing firm CIEL HR Services, said that in terms of manufacturing, only a few support functions like Human Resources, …

Working from home can make you more productive — if you can learn to tame your time
4 years, 11 months ago

Working from home can make you more productive — if you can learn to tame your time

ABC  

Every day, the alarm goes off at the same time: 7am. "Most of the time it's more productive to get work done from home, as you don't get constantly interrupted, you can concentrate and control the level of noise," says Libby Sander, assistant professor of organisational behaviour at Bond University. "Working flexibly solves that — I get feedback on my …

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