Working From Home – pressnews

[ad_1] New research showed that 40% of 16 to 24-year-olds in London jobs find it easier to volunteer for key tasks and ask questions when working remotely. It's become one of the unwritten codes of the new hybrid office: that younger staff working from home have fewer opportunities to network and learn at work. The problem with that analysis? Younger staff don't believe it. New research from King's College London showed that 40% of 16 to 24-year-olds with a workplace in the UK capital find it easier to volunteer for key tasks and ask questions when working remotely. Conversely, their older peers are more inclined to see working from home as a barrier to learning and networking. “Younger workers are more likely to see the positive potential in how the use of technology can flatten...

[ad_1] 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 perfor...

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