Will 2024 be the year employers crack down on remote work? Not so fast
Briefly

It's true that widespread studies based on standard measures of efficiency have found that fully remote employees are 10% to 20% less productive than those working on company premises. But the new research that showed lower productivity by full-time remote workers also found that those on a hybrid schedule - some days at home and some on site - were about as productive as those in the office full-time.
Potentially even more important than abstract data are the surprisingly deep feelings of a great many workers about holding on to at least some degree of flexibility. And those personal feelings, which involve such cut-to-the-bone issues as commuting and the cost of child care, are being reinforced by gains in communications technology and the persistent shortage of qualified workers.
Read at The Mercury News
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