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October, 2008
The Ultimate Guide to Working from Home
verything you need to As appealing as remote work is organizational costs, while
work remotely—for to employees, it wouldn't be employees enjoy perks like
Ea n e m p l o y e r o r such a strong trend if flexibility and the lack of a
yourself. The work-from- e m p l o y e r s d i d n ' t a l s o commute.
home job force just got a big recognize benefits from their · To work effectively from
push from the current global side of the desk. Companies home, you'll need to make
coronavirus pandemic. But with work-from-anywhere s u r e y o u h a v e t h e
even before COVID-19 policies can boost employee technology you require, a
became a factor, increasing productivity, reduce turnover, s e p a r a t e w o r k s p a c e ,
numbers of people have and lower organizational costs, Internet service that meets
been saying goodbye to their according to recent research at your need, a workable
Harvard Business School. schedule you can stick to,
and ways to connect with
Telecommuting workers with others.
very complex jobs who don't · Top fields for remote
require a lot of collaboration or work include computers
social support can perform and IT, education and
better than their office-based training, and healthcare;
counterparts, according to positions include customer
another study. Also, in the service reps, virtual
event of a natural or manmade assistants, data entry and
d i s a s t e r , a d i s t r i b u t e d transcription, teachers, and
onerous commute to work. workforce is in a better position more.
to keep operations running, · A variety of top firms,
Thanks to ever-evolving even if some of the group goes including Amazon, Dell,
technologies like Skype, offline. Humana, Kaplan, and
Facetime, Slack, Zoom,
Salesforce, offer remote
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