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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It was easy to go home because we had to. Now, how do we get people to want to come back? In 2019, less than 6% of American workers worked primarily from home. Then COVID hit, and by May 2020, 35% of workers worked completely remotely, as high as 57% among professional and management occupations. Now, business leaders want people back in the office . Without in-person workplace interactions, leaders see workers missing out on building vital connections that facilitate collaboration and innovation and the soft skills gained by interacting with people at various levels within the company. But according to Pew research , 61% of remote workers say they work from home because they prefer to. Among knowledge workers unsatisfied with their current workplace flexibility, 71% said they were open to finding another job in the oncoming year. Demanding workers come back will drive quit rates and turn off new t...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. By now, just about everyone has heard of the term "quiet quitting." It emerged in March 2022 and refers to doing the bare minimal tasks of your job description well enough that you don't get fired. The concept quickly went viral on TikTok. Yet it only started to gain traction as an issue of concern among business leaders when government data on productivity released in August 2022 showed a sharp and unexpected drop in Q1 and Q2 of 2022. Soon after that worrisome data point in August, Gallup released a survey in early September indicating that as many as half of all Americans may be quiet quitters, further exacerbating business leadership concerns about this problem. Many traditionalist leaders rushed to attribute this drop in productivity and rise in quiet quitting to remote work. For example, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink attributed the drop in productivity to remote work. He called f...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As part of ongoing cost-cutting measures under new owner and CEO Elon Musk, Twitter is shutting down its Seattle offices and instructing employees to work remotely. That's despite Musk earlier claiming that remote workers are only "pretending to work" and banning remote work at Twitter upon taking it over in early November. So what explains his change of heart? Apparently, it's the costs associated with the company's Seattle office, including rent but also services such as cleaning and security. The fact that Musk — an extreme skeptic of remote work — acknowledged its cost-cutting benefits illustrates the future of remote work for the U.S. economy. It highlights the misleading nature of many headlines that claim an impending recession would lead to the end of remote work since a cooling labor market will give executives more control to require employees to return to the ...

Insider recently spoke to a 32-year-old nonprofit worker who went to Vegas while working remotely. They didn't tell their boss, and everything was going smoothly until an unexpected Zoom meeting. "Many workers can work anywhere," they said. "If you allow work-from-home, it should be flexible." This article originally appeared on Business Insider . Matthias Tunger via Getty Images via Business Insider Remote worker in a casino This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a 32-year-old nonprofit worker. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their career, but Insider has verified their identity and employment. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. When I started working entirely from home, I didn't think I would find myself taking a Zoom call from a Vegas casino while trying to make my boss think I w...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Few companies pay enough attention to employee onboarding — according to a recent Gallup survey, only 12% of employees think their company does it well. And it's clear that effective onboarding is crucial for both company productivity and employee retention: Successful onboarding can improve employee performance by up to 15% and means an employee is nine times more likely to stay with the company. Our organization supports companies all over the world with remote onboarding. Here, I want to highlight some onboarding practices that we have found useful both within our own team and when supporting other teams. Related: 4 Building Blocks for a Successful Remote Employee Onboarding Process What does remote onboarding cover? Standard employee onboarding covers all the steps that must be taken to set up a new employee to be successful within the company. This includes introducing new hires to the tea...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A new study from the University of Birmingham has found that managers developed a more positive outlook on the benefits of remote and flexible working since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The research surveyed 597 managers and found that 51.8% of them agreed that working from home improves employee concentration, 59.5% agreed that it increases productivity, and 62.8% agreed that it increases motivation. Furthermore, an even larger proportion of managers, 76.5% believe that flexible working generally increases productivity. Importantly, the study also found that line managers were more likely to see flexible working as a performance-enhancing tool (71.2%) than senior management (65.6%). This highlights the importance of educating senior management on the benefits of flexible working and the positive impact it can have on employee performance. Now, managers need to learn how to maximize hybrid...