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Remote Work is Going To Keep Increasing, Study Says (upwork.com)
Freelancing website Upwork has published its annual Future Workforce Report, which explores hiring behaviors of over 1,000 U.S. managers. It finds: As companies struggle to fill the skills gap, they're embracing agile, remote teams to get work done. Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of companies today have remote workers, yet a majority lack remote work policies.
Companies have the resources, but lack the policies to support remote work: While companies feel confident they have the resources in place to support remote work, many lack a formal policy. Sixty-four percent of hiring managers feel that their company has the resources and processes in place to support a remote workforce, yet the majority (57 percent) lack a remote work policy.
Companies with work-from-home policies have become more lenient & inclusive: As companies increasingly embrace remote work, they're evolving their work-from-home policies. Nearly half (45%) of hiring managers said their company's work-from-home policy has changed in the past five years, with 60 percent saying it has become more lenient and inclusive. This increased inclusivity is making it easier for companies to find the talent they need. Over half (52%) of hiring managers that work at companies with work-from-home policies believe hiring has become easier in the past year.
Findings indicate remote work is likely to become the new normal: Over half (55%) of hiring managers agree that remote work has become more commonplace as compared to three years ago. Five times as many hiring managers expect more of their team to work remotely in the next ten years than expect less.
Companies have the resources, but lack the policies to support remote work: While companies feel confident they have the resources in place to support remote work, many lack a formal policy. Sixty-four percent of hiring managers feel that their company has the resources and processes in place to support a remote workforce, yet the majority (57 percent) lack a remote work policy.
Companies with work-from-home policies have become more lenient & inclusive: As companies increasingly embrace remote work, they're evolving their work-from-home policies. Nearly half (45%) of hiring managers said their company's work-from-home policy has changed in the past five years, with 60 percent saying it has become more lenient and inclusive. This increased inclusivity is making it easier for companies to find the talent they need. Over half (52%) of hiring managers that work at companies with work-from-home policies believe hiring has become easier in the past year.
Findings indicate remote work is likely to become the new normal: Over half (55%) of hiring managers agree that remote work has become more commonplace as compared to three years ago. Five times as many hiring managers expect more of their team to work remotely in the next ten years than expect less.
Whoo Hoo. A lot of third-world countries will be glad to hear this.
seriously get your ass to the office, donâ(TM)t claim to be WFH and then spend all day fucking off
I've worked remote since ~2010. I still go to the office occasionally, usually one week a month for all of the stuff I can't do remotely.
I can't imagine trying to shoehorn my life back into the terrible 9-5 mold. The first thing I ask recruiters when they try to poach is if remote is possible and if not shoo them away.
Our house is paid for, I like where we live, my wife likes her job. I'm not playing the "lets drag the family across the country for breadcrumbs and hope I don't get laid off from this new position" game.
A freelance website predicts there will be more freelancing in the future?
What's next - Uber predicting there will be more ride sharing?
With news story after news story about companies cancelling their work from home programs, it this really true?
Don't get me wrong, I think that remote work SHOULD increase, I see no reason to deal with a commute just to be less productive in the office than I could be at home. all while costing the company more money in real-estate and equivalent.
But as long as managers are lazy and prefer to manage by time-clock rather than by worker performance, I'm not sure we can expect to see large strides in this area.
I mean , there are 'alot' of positions that will never be romote.
Remote waiter? Remote real estate agent? factory worker? Home builder, gardener, cook.
I mean, not that they can't have a 'remote office', but there is just a lot of work that actually requires a persons hands be in the same location as the work they are doing.
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Wake me up whenever this movement settles, please.
You all really need to get out of California now and again - you are one state out of 50, just a sliver, and the rest of us could generally give a crap about what anyone in the Golden State thinks of as a 'norm'. Perspective is a lost art on the west coast. Double meh.
Ageism is still a problem, remote work or not.
Work for a states largest healthcare system...
And remote work, was recently nixed, thanks to the new CIO. What was left up to Department Director and Manager discretion, was squashed.
Why? They bought a fancy new building for all I.T. support staff to work out of. Nevermind a bunch of introverts, some who loathe each other, in the same office space, this kills negotiated deals between employees and their shops.
I was 'promised' work at home, which is why I moved quite a ways away... I'm getting around it, since I live closer to a partner hospital than primary office.I'm the loutlier though. And there is no telling how long that will last. Which, if they nix my ability to do that, I quit. I won't do the hour+ commute 5 days a week.2? Maybe 3? Ok. All 5? i'm out of here.
This shift, is either sector based, or .. job scope based. Cause it sure isn't in my environment, who has 4-500 IT staff.
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We'll, not getting the posts right this time either. Big companies are demanding more control and restricting remote workers. sorry:
https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...
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and finds that remote work will keep increasing. That's big news. It's not like surveys are so easily manipulated by the questions asked that not manipulating them is the really hard part.
Surveys performed at the request of people or organizations with a stake in the results are rarely brokered by a third party to hide the customer and are thus rarely worth the paper they are written on. Yes, I know this is electronic.
Once we get real VR, the prostitution industry will become entirely remote! I can't wait!
Companies stopped doing W@H since hiring Indians was a cheaper alternative and they figured "remote is remote" as if there is no difference between one tech worker and another. So what if they don't know your language, aren't awake when you need to talk to them, or have shit-standard skills. Bean counting business suit weasels don't care. They'll just pound the table to get "less with more" from the folks left behind.
Problems with remote work:
1. If a company goes 100% work from home, they could outsource to India.
2. When a company decides remote work is not working, they make everyone come in full time, massively disrupting everyone's lives.
These issues can both be avoided with a combination of the two - where I am allows for up to 5 days work from home every 2 weeks. This is quite flexible, since you can do 1 week on-1 week off, or alternate days, or any other pattern employee and supervisor agree on. The above problems are solved because:
1. Management seeing and interacting with the employees goes a long way to stave off offshoring ideas. It places a concrete value on locally available employees.
2. They're more likely to tweak individual work plans if there's a problem, rather than blanket rescinding permissions for everyone (i.e. Yahoo). It's less disruptive for both sides if management asks an arbitrary handful of employees to change their days to facilitate a project than if those same employees suddenly have to come in when they may not have even seen the office in years.
Why trust this? The are biased and it is their data.
My company has about 10 remote workers out of about 300. Most of the 10 are constantly having connectivity issues. Wi-Fi, software phones, wireless headsets, etc. You name it, it's not working. In the office there are very few to no issues. It's a support nightmare for my staff.
Example A:
user: Please help. My session is so slow I can't do anything. My phone keeps breaking up.
IT: Ok, we'll go through the checklist...
[45 minutes later]
IT: It looks like you're on a 3mbps connection. I thought you had a 50mbps connection?
user: Well, I'm visiting my mom today and I'm using her Internet...
IT: FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!
So why do we need companies ?
We only need collaboration to achieve big things.
Management is best done by computers and the workers take all the profit.
Once workers accumulate wealth, they won't need shareholders skimming the cream.
Go well
It's mostly the same here: you get what you pay for, but about a 15% difference. You have to pay roughly 70k in the US for competence. (I know, plenty of exceptions, it's only a generalization.)
Screwed-up managers will screw things up regardless of where they get staff such that they figure it's better to pay less for failure. Would you rather pay $115 mil for the Titanic or $100 mil? Dysfunctional orgs can't compete on competence, so they instead focus on cost, becoming the 98-cent store of service. Sure, their wash-rags degenerate into lint, but so do the competitor's: the 99-cent store.
Table-ized A.I.
Between a boss who thinks our open office culture is needed for people to be able to communicate, brainstorm and engineer, and one idiot co-worker who absolutely insists that's what he needs for any of us to work with him, I've been stuck commuting across country lines every week. Been lucky to get 1 day a week from home.
We have slack, email, webex, and cell phones that are dinging, buzzing, and ringing all day with communication, but these two seem to think we still need to have everyone walking up and interrupting each other. Most of us have alternate desks in the office just to have places we can concentrate on the projects we've been given, instead of the interruptions of every Tom and Jane who wants to chit chat.
I get so much more done, tickets closed, design work completed either at home or away from my desk then I can in my actual assigned location, and the boss even has acknowledged it. But he says it's a culture thing, that we need it. Gah! WTF?
...as back in the day the Internet was unmetered. With today's data caps it's cheaper to drive to an office every day than pay exorbitant data fees!
Alvin Toffler suggested it. Imagine if we didn't spend money on mass transportation but mass remote working!