New study reveals potentially huge advantage of working from home: 'It's one interesting piece of the puzzle'
There was a huge jump in work-from-home arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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There was a huge jump in work-from-home arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bit by bit, businesses have for the past year and more been nudging employees back to the office after COVID-19 lockdowns and distancing rules. But those...
Earlier in September, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy warned staff that it was "probably not going to work out" if they refused to work at least 3 days a week in the office. Google, Meta and X had previously told employees to cut back on work-from-home and revert to something closer to pre-Covid operations. But employees who feel unshackled by spending most of the week at home are getting some ammunition to fire back at their whip-cracking, axe-wielding bosses. According to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the US, "remote work...
Compared to those who travel to an office for work, people who work remotely could reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 54 percent.
Remote workers can have a 54% lower carbon footprint compared with onsite workers, according to a new study by Cornell and Microsoft.