Some Americans have a new outlook on remote working: They prefer it.
In June and July, a group of 1,388 people working from home were asked for their impressions of the experience by workplace consulting firm Global Workplace Analytics and video technology company Owl Labs.
The new arrangement, it turns out, suited many of them.
While roughly 27% said they would have considered such a setup to be ideal before the coronavirus pandemic started, 80% said they would like to continue working remotely for three days of the week or more once the pandemic is over. Many of these people said they would prefer remote work all five days of the workweek.
Front Porch Republic
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends.” – Samuel Johnson, 1750
St. Louis, Mo. Hour by hour over the years, we have abandoned our homes. We sent our children away, so often at a very early age, for common schooling often run by the State. Sometimes, they hop on a bus before the sun rises and return toward dinnertime. We left home ourselves to become wage-slaves in occupations that in so many ways separate our minds and our hearts from our families. Our mark of success is not a passionate and seemingly interminable game of Monopoly around a well-worn dinner table but commanding a meeting in a conference room where screens filled with PowerPoints replace the homely hearth.