{"id":159,"date":"2020-08-04T01:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2020-08-04T01:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:25:43","slug":"working-from-home-increases-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/working-from-home-increases-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Working from Home Increases Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently conducted a study that examined \u201chow its employees were handling the myriad of changes related to working from home (WFH).\u201d In general Microsoft found that productivity increased as a result of WFH:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting length changed organically from 60-minutes to 30-minutes<\/li>\n<li>Manager\u2019s collaboration time increased 8 hours per week offset somewhat by task work decreases<\/li>\n<li>Increased frequency of 1-1s with managers helped worker efficiency<\/li>\n<li>Meetings shifted from morning to late afternoon<\/li>\n<li>More night work and weekend collaboration, an average of 4 hours per week<\/li>\n<li>More mid-day breaks (take care of children, exercise, walk the dog)<\/li>\n<li>Social meetings increased 10% and 1-1 with other employees increased 18%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read a summary of the study at the Benefits Pro website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2020\/07\/28\/what-did-microsofts-in-house-research-uncover-about-remote-work\/\">https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2020\/07\/28\/what-did-microsofts-in-house-research-uncover-about-remote-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a more in-depth summary in Harvard Business Review:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/07\/microsoft-analyzed-data-on-its-newly-remote-workforce\">https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/07\/microsoft-analyzed-data-on-its-newly-remote-workforce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auxillium West HRnetSource is ideally suited to work from home.\u00a0 Email <a href=\"mailto:sales@auxillium.com\">sales@auxillium.com<\/a> or call 1-888-662-4937 for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently conducted a study that examined \u201chow its employees were handling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,11],"tags":[29,12,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}