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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. These industries experienced productivity growth surges from 1.1%

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

Small Business Labs

Those who have been telecommuting have the choice of moving or leaving the company. IBM, of course, isn't the only well known example of a company reducing or eliminating telecommuting. Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting.

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How Telecommuting Beats the Recession

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. This form of working from home and using computers and the Internet has been coined telecommuting. Telecommuting Trends. The fastest growing telecommuting roles at the moment are in the fields of freelance data entry, accountancy, business consulting and customer services.

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The Green Business Benefits of Telecommuting

Eco-Office Gals

When exploring the reasons why green businesses would benefit from hiring people who telecommute, probably one of the most obvious ones is that when people are working from home, they are not using gas to drive into the office and the less emissions that are in the air, the better it is for everyone. It can increase productivity.

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Could You Telecommute From Italy?

On The Job

He worked for 13 months telecommuting from Venic -- no, not Venice, Calif., He argues that if you can telecommute five or 25 miles from your office, why can't you telecommute from another part of the world? He began telecommuting one day a week then eventually increased that to full time.

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Workplace productivity

Clutter Coach

by Productivity, and increasing it, is a perennially popular topic and it won’t go away anytime soon. New technology changes the issues a bit, as do new work habits, such as telecommuting. I’m intrigued that 75% of respondents have gotten more productive with age. But as an issue to be dealt with, it remains.

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Finding Ways To Effective Telecommuting

Productivity Bits

The trend that has tremendously grown in the last couple of years in the workforce is Telecommuting or, for many, Working From Home (WFH). The biggest factor that determines an employee’s capacity to get things done while WFH is his or her productivity rate. How are you keeping a productive environment?