Working from Home Improve Performance !
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Great findings by Stanford students. www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/WFH.pdf[^] Here is an abstract ... Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact and worries about “shirking from home”. We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000 employee NASDAQ-listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly assigned to work from home or in the office for 9 months. Working from home led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 8.6% is from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick-days) and 4% from more calls per minute (attributed to a quieter working environment). Home workers also reported improved work satisfaction and their job attrition rate fell by 50%. After the experiment, the firm rolled the program out to all employees, letting them choose home or office working. Interestingly, only half of the treatment group decided to work at home, with the other half reallocating in favor of office working. After employees were allowed to choose where to work, the performance impact of WFH almost doubled, highlighting the benefits of choice when adopting modern management practices like home working. What is one software you cannot live without when tele-commuting? For me Basecamp and Dropbox both are required. What is Your Favorite?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
See The Big Picture at http://DesignAndMethod.com
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Great findings by Stanford students. www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/WFH.pdf[^] Here is an abstract ... Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact and worries about “shirking from home”. We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000 employee NASDAQ-listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly assigned to work from home or in the office for 9 months. Working from home led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 8.6% is from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick-days) and 4% from more calls per minute (attributed to a quieter working environment). Home workers also reported improved work satisfaction and their job attrition rate fell by 50%. After the experiment, the firm rolled the program out to all employees, letting them choose home or office working. Interestingly, only half of the treatment group decided to work at home, with the other half reallocating in favor of office working. After employees were allowed to choose where to work, the performance impact of WFH almost doubled, highlighting the benefits of choice when adopting modern management practices like home working. What is one software you cannot live without when tele-commuting? For me Basecamp and Dropbox both are required. What is Your Favorite?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
See The Big Picture at http://DesignAndMethod.com
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Great findings by Stanford students. www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/WFH.pdf[^] Here is an abstract ... Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact and worries about “shirking from home”. We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000 employee NASDAQ-listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly assigned to work from home or in the office for 9 months. Working from home led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 8.6% is from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick-days) and 4% from more calls per minute (attributed to a quieter working environment). Home workers also reported improved work satisfaction and their job attrition rate fell by 50%. After the experiment, the firm rolled the program out to all employees, letting them choose home or office working. Interestingly, only half of the treatment group decided to work at home, with the other half reallocating in favor of office working. After employees were allowed to choose where to work, the performance impact of WFH almost doubled, highlighting the benefits of choice when adopting modern management practices like home working. What is one software you cannot live without when tele-commuting? For me Basecamp and Dropbox both are required. What is Your Favorite?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
See The Big Picture at http://DesignAndMethod.com
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Great findings by Stanford students. www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/WFH.pdf[^] Here is an abstract ... Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact and worries about “shirking from home”. We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000 employee NASDAQ-listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly assigned to work from home or in the office for 9 months. Working from home led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 8.6% is from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick-days) and 4% from more calls per minute (attributed to a quieter working environment). Home workers also reported improved work satisfaction and their job attrition rate fell by 50%. After the experiment, the firm rolled the program out to all employees, letting them choose home or office working. Interestingly, only half of the treatment group decided to work at home, with the other half reallocating in favor of office working. After employees were allowed to choose where to work, the performance impact of WFH almost doubled, highlighting the benefits of choice when adopting modern management practices like home working. What is one software you cannot live without when tele-commuting? For me Basecamp and Dropbox both are required. What is Your Favorite?
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
See The Big Picture at http://DesignAndMethod.com
Always nice, having statistics and a generalization as "proof". First, it's extra overhead for the IT-department and it's a security-hole. Second, there'll be less communication (also less interruptions), and less teambuilding. It's a good idea for people who only need a phone to do their job (or politicians, saves a lot of travel), not for anyone working in a team.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] They hate us for our freedom![^]
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Always nice, having statistics and a generalization as "proof". First, it's extra overhead for the IT-department and it's a security-hole. Second, there'll be less communication (also less interruptions), and less teambuilding. It's a good idea for people who only need a phone to do their job (or politicians, saves a lot of travel), not for anyone working in a team.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] They hate us for our freedom![^]
After three years of mainly working from home, I am super happy to be working in a large office again.