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This week on Working Overtime, the hosts answer a listener’s question about introspection. Unfortunately for the believers, new research mostly runs counter to this, showing that offices, for all their flaws, remain essential. A good starting point is a working paper that received much attention when it was published in 2020 by Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington, then both doctoral students at Harvard University. They found an 8% increase in the number of calls handled per hour by employees of an online retailer that had shifted from offices to homes. Far less noticed was a revised version of their paper, published in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Produced by the American Psychological Association, these podcasts will help listeners apply the science of psychology to their everyday lives.
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The Patent Office did not adjust the income of the patent examiners based on where they chose to live. So in the midst of the noisy and sometimes contentious work-from-home debate, Nick Bloom has provided some actual evidence. It turns out that the flex or hybrid model — a couple days at home, a few in the workplace — seems to boost employee happiness and productivity. When things get too quiet at home, but you’re not in the mood for full-on chatter, it’s time to turn on The White Noise Podcast. Play them sequentially or find a favorite to play it on repeat for a workday ASMR experience that helps you get stuff done.
With the slow restart of sports, once again we have a reason to pay attention to the goings on of professional athletes. Whether you’re a diehard fan of the gridiron, you’re eagerly watching America’s past time, or you’re waiting for skates to hit the ice, there’s probably a podcast out there for you. Meanwhile, if you want some more daily interest and inspiration to break up the day, TED Talks Daily offers these perfect little pocket podcasts. Short, digestible subjects and discussions every single day, and they’re all deeply considered and researched and sure to make you consider some topics you haven’t thought about yet. It’s easier than ever, too, to get burned out while working from home.
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So if people feel you care about them, and if people feel that you understand them, emotional trust emerges. Leaders must earn emotional trust in a remote environment. Here’s the thing, what I’ve been saying for several months now, and I still feel the same way about this, is that the cultures of our organizations as we’ve known them have shifted and changed. Remote work’s presence starting about March 2020 has changed how people work together, how people communicate, how people solve problems. That’s typically fixed and unchanged unless we are growing along those dimensions, we’re augmenting our shared values. But the other part of culture is, what are our shared norms, the attitudes, the behaviors that we espouse in order to get work done?
But what if the whole idea of the “central business district” has begun to permanently erode? Yes, this idea has a long and profitable history, and economists have shown there are huge benefits to density. Indeed, the world has become more and more urban over the past few centuries, as a place to work and live and play. For all the advantages that density offers, the pandemic has shown the downsides too. Also, cities are a habit; and people can sometimes take up new habits.
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- She mentioned one of the biggest and flashiest new developments in New York — Hudson Yards, a complex of office and residential and commercial properties on the far west side of Manhattan.
- All this explains why so many workers have become so office-shy.
- After embracing remote and hybrid work schedules, some companies now find flexible work schedules as cutting down on productivity.
- Whatever your morning ritual may be, research shows that beginning your remote work day with exercise and a nourishing breakfast will help you to be more productive and have a positive attitude to start your day.
- In some fields, including finance and consulting, that percentage is more than half.
- It’s the next best thing to actually sitting down and picking Tim’s brain yourself.
- This week on Working Overtime, the hosts answer a listener’s question about introspection.
Yet another used a laboratory experiment to show that video conferences inhibit creative thinking. For many people who can do their job from home, the pandemic meant a sudden shift from office-based to remote working. But after a working from home podcast year of working from home, some company bosses really don’t want it to become the new normal. The Building Remote Teams host, Jevin, has managed a 50-person remote team since 2010 and can share plenty of first-hand experience.
Darcy Boles, Director of Culture & Innovation at TaxJar, a Stripe company
The greatest accidental experiment in the history of labor has lessons to teach us about productivity, flexibility, and even reversing the brain drain. But don’t buy another dozen pairs of sweatpants just yet. So the space is there but it is deeply underused, as are a lot of offices in New York City. The city’s office space is still only about half occupied — way up from the depths of the pandemic, of course. But Sinha says that opportunities to shift to a fully flexible way of working may be being missed, with companies implementing new policies as rigid as the old ones.
What we need is a researcher who was thinking about these issues long before anyone ever heard of Covid-19. As of today, roughly 50 percent of U.S. workers are still virtual; a year ago, that number was around 70 percent. Some predictions say that office work will eventually return to pre-pandemic levels. Other predictions say that office work has been broken forever, that too many workers have seen the light. One new research paper, based on survey data, estimates that 20 percent of full work days will now be from home, versus just 5 percent before the pandemic.