Tag: Work From Home

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Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in pandemic

People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau.In many respects, the demographic makeup of people working from home from 2019 to 2021 became more like workers who were commuting, while the share of the U.S. labor force working from home went from 5.7% in 2019 to 17.9% in 2021, as restrictions were implemented to help slow the spread of the virus, according to a report released last week based on American Community Survey data. “The increase in homebased workers corresponded with a decline in drivers, carpoolers, transit riders, and most other types of commuters,” the report said. The share of people working from home between ages 25 and 34...
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Will Remote Work Continue in 2023?

With recession worries growing, power may shift back to employers and threaten perks gained during the pandemic. If the US job market continues to weaken next year, companies will be emboldened and may pull back on letting employees work remotely.Executives generally fall into two camps on working from home, which surged during the pandemic when workers gained leverage during a tight labor market. Some believe it has advantages, like happier employees, while others say company culture is built in the office. “There's a genuine divergence between organizations,” said Melissa Swift, a workforce transformation leader at consultant Mercer. “You're starting to see companies pick sides.”That said, remote works looks like it's here to stay. Gallup projects that about 75% of remote-capable w...
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Why WFH When You Can Live in the Office Like Elon Musk?

The office is the best place for collaboration, creativity and efficiency. But being bossy about RTO isn’t good strategy. It's no surprise that Elon Musk is ordering Twitter Inc. staff back to the office within a month of taking the keys to the social media company. Workers at Tesla Inc. are fully familiar with their billionaire boss's strict preference for being present. But combine this with a weakening economy and pressure from Wall Street leaders for office working, and it helps normalize the use of force rather than nudging to get people back to HQ. Any advocacy for the primacy of office working in the tech sector is significant. Remote working is enabled by technology, so the industry as a whole has a vested interest in promoting it — just as real-estate developers want thei...
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Work-From-Home Trend May Have Peaked, LinkedIn Survey Finds

The social network also found a growing disconnect between what employees want and what their employer demands. Remote working may have peaked in the UK as a loosening labor market hands power back to employers, according to research by LinkedIn. In September, 12% of UK jobs advertised on the site were remote, compared with 16% in January, as “paranoid” employers worry about the productivity of working from home, said Josh Graff, the managing director of LinkedIn for EMEA and Latin America. The company also found that three out of four bosses in the UK are concerned that the current economic slowdown means they will have to go back on flexible working, in a global survey of around 3,000 C-suite executives at large organizations. The power is “shifting back to employers as hiri...
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Excuses, Excuses: Web Searches For Reasons to Skip Work Soar in 2022

As calls to return to the office grow louder, workers look for ways to play hooky. US employees are scouring the internet for excuses to miss work — just as bosses call them back to their desks.The total number of Google searches for plausible reasons to play hooky shot up over the last two years, topping 2 million in 2022, according to an analysis by Frank Recruitment Group, a global employment firm. In 2018, that figure was a little over 300,000. The firm analyzed traffic across 10 of the most popular search terms, including multiple variations of “realistic excuses for missing work.” Some of the top results? Illness, family or home emergencies, doctor's appointment and car trouble. This surge comes as executives express concern about quiet quitting and faltering productivity, and ...
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Moonlighting unacceptable: Happiest Minds

Happiest Minds had about 4,581 employees as of September 30, 2022. IT company Happiest Minds Technologies has said moonlighting is unacceptable as it amounts to violation of job contract and that "few" employees found engaging in such practices have been fired over the last 6-12 months. The company -- which recently logged a stellar 33.7 per cent on year growth in net profit in the second quarter and 31.1 per cent rise in its total income -- had about 4,581 employees as of September 30, 2022. Happiest Minds asserted that moonlighting is not very prevalent within the company but did not divulge the exact number of employees against whom action had been taken on the issue. The issue of moonlighting or dual employment has emerged as a big talking point in the IT industry ever ...
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Working From Home Is Not an Urban Escape Hatch

Contrary to popular perception, the nation’s WFH hotbeds are big-city neighborhoods and expensive suburbs. The mass shift to remote work during the pandemic allowed people with professional and management jobs to do them effectively from mountaintop aeries, beachfront cottages and exotic foreign locales. Mainly, though, it seems to have enabled residents of big-city neighborhoods and close-in suburbs to avoid going to offices that were in some cases within walking distance of their homes. These numbers are from the 2021 edition of the American Community Survey, a sort of mini-census that the US Census Bureau sends out to 3.5 million households each year. They come in response to the multiple-choice question, asked of household members who were already reported to have performed pa...
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Pay Dispute! Work-From-Home or Return to the Office? A Rift Is Emerging Among US Workers

Almost three-quarters of respondents said companies should pay in-office employees more than their work-from-home colleagues. Tensions are brewing at work between employees who have returned to the office and those who've continued to work from home, according to a survey of US workers. Almost three-quarters of respondents said companies should pay in-office employees more than their work-from-home colleagues, and two-thirds are concerned that managers view full-time remote workers as lazier, according to the survey of 3,500 people commissioned by GoodHire, a firm that performs employment background checks. At the same time, a third of respondents are willing to quit their job or start looking for a new one if forced t...
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As Companies Like Apple, Peloton Push For Return to Office, 80% of Workers Think They’d Be Fired for Saying No

Employees are getting nervous as bosses double down on return-to-office mandates. Almost 80% of remote workers believe their employers would fire them if they said “no” to a return-to-office mandate. However, nearly 60% of employers say they'd be content with employees resigning rather than returning to the office. That's according to a survey of 800 workers and 200 business leaders by OSlash, a productivity software company. Big-name companies like Apple Inc. and Peloton Interactive Inc. are leading the charge, setting Labor Day as their latest deadline for corporate employees to be in the office at least three days a week. The push has driven a wedge between workers and their bosses, with many rank-and-file employees r...