Has teleworking increased productivity?

Now that it seems that many companies are returning to in-person work again, there are several studies that show that teleworking has increased productivity, and some of the advantages that have been found are that more hours have been worked, there have been fewer breaks, and there has not been as much loss of time caused by travel.

10/12/2021

Some of the data from the study on the future of work, carried out by the consultancy Omdia, shows that teleworking has led to an increase in productivity for 68% of the 400 companies surveyed worldwide; according to this same study, 58% of workers say they would maintain teleworking or the hybrid model.

Another study carried out by Standard University in the United States, reveals that this increase in productivity is due to the fact that people who were teleworking dedicated 9% more time to their jobs, as they took shorter breaks, had fewer days of absence due to illness, and an improvement in performance per minute of 4%; this same study also shows greater satisfaction with the job, and a decrease in the resignation rate of 50%.

The University of Chicago also conducted a study, with surveys of 10,000 employees, which shows that 30% of workers felt more productive and motivated working from home, and that in addition, 9 billion hours would have been saved in travel, during the first 6 months of the pandemic in the U.S. U..

The analysis of Netflix's half-yearly accounts, carried out by Business Insider Spain, shows that companies like this have improved their productivity per worker during the first half of 2021, assuming a figure of 1.54 million per worker.

Teleworking

The data from these studies seems to show that teleworking has indeed increased productivity, but whatever system each company decides to use, Timenet can be its great ally, since it allows the use of both the in-person work system and teleworking, and also the hybrid model!

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