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Remote Working Can Lead To Higher Productivity and Motivation

Remote working doesn´t lead to less productivity or motivation. According to a recent study by Perfect Placements, it has the opposite effect. Many employees who work from home report that they are more motivated, productive, and satisfied than before.

Around 50% of employees all over Europe say their productivity stayed the same while working remotely, and more than 44% of employees even think their productivity increased.

Remote working also didn’t lead to less motivation. On the contrary, more than 21% of the employees felt more motivated. Almost 60% of employees felt just as motivated as they felt working from the office.

Employees are equally optimistic about their job satisfaction: more than 56% of all employees were just as satisfied with their work as before the lockdown, and 25% were even more delighted.

Employees want the possibility of working remotely

Remote working will become the new normal if it’s up to the employees and job seekers. More than 60% of the workforce would like to have the possibility to work remotely full-time.

That said, even if they had the choice, many employees would still come to the office for most of the working week. Only 5% would choose to work remotely for four days or more. The majority (73%) would prefer to work from home 1 or 2 days per week.

Almost 69% of all employees and job seekers expect companies to be more open to remote working policies than before the COVID crisis.

Remote working increased dramatically

The question is if the companies will listen to their employees and grant their wish to work more from home than they used to do before the crisis. Although most companies also had flexible working policies before COVID, generally, the rule was to work from the office.

Before the crisis, 57% of all employees could only work from home occasionally or not at all. A minority (43%) of employees had the freedom to work remotely.

Due to the lockdown, the number of employees working remotely increased dramatically. Of all the respondents to the survey, 55% worked remotely. The only people not working from home were those without a job or the sort of job that didn’t allow working remotely, for example, in a storehouse or a shop.