CEO: Stop blaming remote work for business failures

AUSTIN, Texas - Aug. 14, 2023 - PRLog -- It's time for companies to stop blaming remote work for low productivity, says the CEO of a digital talent acquisition firm dedicated to remote work in the US.

"Countless studies have shown that better work-life balance, such as exactly the kind that remote work creates, make workers more productive, happier and less likely to quit in general," says Joseph Boll, CEO of RemoteWorker.jobs, an online jobs board and resource website for remote workers, remote work jobseekers, and hiring managers, employers and HR personnel seeking to recruit and hire the top talent for remote positions.

However, new data from the BLS makes a correlation between productivity and work-life balance. According to RemoteWorker.jobs, this suggests that people who work fewer hours — and hence have more time to live their life — may be more productive in general.

"This lines up with what researchers have already confirmed about remote work — that when employees have better work-life balance, they are more productive," Boll notes. "They're less stressed out about not having enough time to live their lives, and they're less likely to feel burnt out. We've seen similar results with the four-day workweek in Europe, where businesses found that productivity increased significantly when employees spent less time on the job and had more free time to themselves."

Other studies have also found that remote workers waste less company time than in-office workers do, and that getting rid of remote work through return-to-office (RTO) mandates actually fosters resentment, making employees less productive, more likely to "Quiet Quit" or more likely to resign altogether.

"It's time to end the false idea that productivity challenges are because a remote worker is at home slacking off," says Boll. "Research and remote worker testimony confirm that this is not the case — it's actually more likely to be true of an in-office worker. If a business' remote team is having productivity challenges, it signals a company issue and likely a morale difficulty that needs to be addressed instead of unfairly placing all the blame on remote work."

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