Productivity, Retention And Cost Savings: Why Working From Home Benefits Employees And Employers
One way to reduce traffic and the number of hours workers spend commuting is to have more people work from home more often.
Is working remotely becoming the office of the future?
Yes — and for many good reasons — says Scott Mautz, a former executive at Procter & Gamble who writes about business.
“When you stop and you look at the data available to us, in almost two thirds of the cases, every leader that granted the work from home option has found productivity has increased by as much as 50%,” he tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson.
Mautz says that on top of increased productivity, working from home boosts employee retention. On average, he says, turnover decreases by 50% when the work from home option is available.
Here’s another bonus: no commute.
Commuters in the metro areas of New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington D.C., Atlanta and San Francisco spend at
