I know through my experience over the summer interning at a bank hearing stories from the workers about how much better they liked doing there job from home. Also when o was working with more senior management hearing how they went from working 5 days a week at the office to only coming in once a week and any other times they feel it is necessary. This allows for better worker morale and workers don't burn out as fast. One issue that can arise is if workers will be as productive from home, in my experience from those at the bank they are incentive based in pay and also are graded on performance so they were properly motivated. Another issue that the article mentions like when should bosses be able to call employees if they are working from home? As the article mentions the government of Portugal made a law stating that attempts to contact employees after hours to work can cause fines against the firm. The question is will employees actually file these complaints or are they more likely to take the calls to make their bosses happy and compete for promotions. I feel as an employee entering the labor force in the next year I would take the extra phone calls to earn those promotions so I feel these changes will not be very effective. It will be hard to figure out where to make changes that can keep employers from doing this in the future.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/12/11/the-difficulties-of-policing-remote-work
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This is a very interesting article because working from home is becoming more and more popular. Even though the country is recovering from the pandemic and we are slowly getting back to normal, many companies have already expressed their disinterest in returning to the office in person. If results show that workers are remaining to be as productive then companies could possibly save millions on buying a smaller office building or not buying an office building at all. Zoom/Google meet can forever change the way businesses operate because you can connect with any person in the world at any time. It will be interesting as we slowly get out of the pandemic to see how many businesses will return to the office.
What I will think will be interesting to pay attention too is if at what point in the future do we see a decrease in productivity for companies or do we see a decreased quality of work as workers may be trained less given they are virtual.
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