New Research Confirms Telecommuting Is Best for Employees and Employers
While it may be self-evident for many employees – and employers – research now confirms it:
Working from home (or teleworking) is better for both workers and bosses, as it boosts morale and job satisfaction, and cuts stress levels, researchers have discovered.
Researchers analysed 46 studies on flexible work arrangements over the past twenty years.
Ravi S. Gajendran and David A. Harrison, at the Department of Management and Organisation at Pennsylvania State University studied data on 12,833 telecommuters who spend time working away from the office, and found that working away from the office has more pluses than negatives for people and the companies that employ them.
They reported their findings to the journal of Applied Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
“Our results show that telecommuting has an overall beneficial effect because the arrangement provides employees with more control over how they do their work,” said lead author Gajendran.
“We found that telecommuters reported more job satisfaction, less motivation to leave the company, less stress, improved work-family balance, and higher performance ratings by supervisors,” he said.
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