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Unveiling the Hidden Potentials of Remote Work Productivity

Allwork

A 2020 Stanford University study revealed that remote workers were 5% more productive than office-bound counterparts. As the COVID-19 pandemic pushed businesses to embrace telecommuting, many were surprised by the resulting boost in productivity. By spring 2022, this figure rose to 9%.

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New DOL bulletin — Compensable break time for remote employees

BMT Office Administration

Back in 2020, the Department of Labor released a Field Assistance Bulletin to its investigators, which concluded that an employee who worked in the office, ran errands during the afternoon, and continued working at home didn’t need to be paid for the time she was running errands because it was personal time.

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Does local income tax withholding follow the wages or the person?

BMT Office Administration

What was once a more straightforward question, has caused some confusion since 2020. For state tax purposes, withholding mostly follows the person, except in 2020, when employers sent employees home to work. Before 2020, she received tax refunds for the days she worked outside Cleveland. Cleveland commuter is due a tax refund.

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Book Review: The Fifth Age of Work

Small Business Labs

Skype, Google Hangout), as well as the decentralization and de-localization of work characterized by distributed teams, remote work, flex work and telecommuting, contract and project-based work, and the rapid growth of the coworking movement.  Evernote, Dropbox), and communication channels (e.g.,

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The Voices of Coworking Video

Small Business Labs

This research was an extension of the Intuit 2020 research series , which isconducted with our research partner Intuit Corporation.  .  Over 40 of these interviews were filmed, and we believe the 17 people in the film provide a broad and accurate perspective on this new way of working.

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Future Shock: a message from the past that defines the present

Workplace Insight

We all have our 2020 visions, at least for a little while. He forecast the spread of ‘electronic mail’ and the demise of post, as well as the use of telecommuting, interactive media, online chat rooms, videoconferencing and electronic personal assistants. We are all futurologists now. Yes, a book.

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Diversity Hiring 101: A Quintessential Guide for Recruiters

Recruit CRM

Intel's CEO has defined a forceful purpose of diversity equality by 2020. Step 2: Pick a Measurement to Improve Attempting to redesign your diversity recruiting measurements can be overpowering. But again, one shouldn't be too aspiring. The least finicky approach to improve diversity hiring is to pick one measurement to refine.