Employees who can work from anywhere are more productive. Here's how to get your boss on board.
Imagine this: Your employer says not only can you work from home, you can work from anywhere in the world. Hmm…Maybe you’d move near your grown kids in another part of the country and work from there. Or maybe you’d relocate to a less expensive, warmer spot and cut your daily living costs.
“For the employees, the main benefit was cost-of-living savings,” said Prithwiraj Choudhury, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who co-wrote the study, which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. “Their salary was not cut for moving to a cheaper location. So, they had an increase in real income in money in their pocket.”
The downside, Schawbel noted: remote workers can feel isolated and lonely without the human interaction at a physical office. And the downside for employers, he said, is that “it’s harder to build a corporate culture” when employees aren’t in the same place together. Why are Work From Anywhere employees more productive than others, or at least at the Patent Office, based in Alexandria, Va.?
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