{"id":578254,"date":"2023-06-11T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/commute-no-more-us-employees-embrace-telework\/"},"modified":"2023-06-11T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T11:04:12","slug":"commute-no-more-us-employees-embrace-telework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/commute-no-more-us-employees-embrace-telework\/","title":{"rendered":"#Commute no more: US employees embrace telework"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ee7f15a37b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ee7f15a37b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/commute-no-more-us-employees-embrace-telework\/#%E2%80%98The_world_is_changing\" >&#8216;The world is changing&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/commute-no-more-us-employees-embrace-telework\/#Half-empty_offices\" >Half-empty offices<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/commute-no-more-us-employees-embrace-telework\/#A_challenge\" >A challenge<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/amy-whetzel-works-in-h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2023\/amy-whetzel-works-in-h.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Amy Whetzel works in her boat, Miranda, anchored in Mayo, Maryland, about an hour's drive form the US capital.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/amy-whetzel-works-in-h.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Whetzel works in her boat, Miranda, anchored in Mayo, Maryland, about an hour's drive form the US capital\" title=\"Amy Whetzel works in her boat, Miranda, anchored in Mayo, Maryland, about an hour's drive form the US capital.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Amy Whetzel works in her boat, Miranda, anchored in Mayo, Maryland, about an hour&#8217;s drive form the US capital.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Commuting to and from the office five times a week?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just not what I want for my life,&#8221; said Claire, a consultant in her thirties living in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Like Claire, millions of employees across the United States have grown fond of telework since the COVID-19 lockdown and now companies are struggling to bring them back to the office.<\/p>\n<p>Before COVID-19, Americans workers had grown used to less-than-friendly job conditions, such as short vacations and little or no maternity leave, but the experience of working from home left them wanting more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of these practices that workers had become accustomed to in the US before have now then kind of disrupted by the pandemic,&#8221; chief economist Nela Richardson with the ADP Research Institute told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>American offices are still half-empty compared to February 2020, according to a weekly average calculated by Kastle, which manages the entry badges of 40,000 companies around the country.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98The_world_is_changing\"><\/span>&#8216;The world is changing&#8217;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are also wide disparities between different regions and cities: offices in California&#8217;s Silicon Valley, for example, have only recovered a third of their pre-pandemic occupants, compared with around half in New York and Washington, and as much as two-thirds in the Texas cities of Austin and Houston.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/danny-crouch-pets-his.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2023\/danny-crouch-pets-his.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Danny Crouch pets his dog as he sits in his basement working from home in Arlington, Virginia.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/danny-crouch-pets-his.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Crouch pets his dog as he sits in his basement working from home in Arlington, Virginia\" title=\"Danny Crouch pets his dog as he sits in his basement working from home in Arlington, Virginia.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Danny Crouch pets his dog as he sits in his basement working from home in Arlington, Virginia.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Collaborating and inventing is easier and more effective when we&#8217;re in person,&#8221; Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to the company&#8217;s vast workforce back in February, ordering them to return to the office for at least three days a week.<\/p>\n<p>Many Amazon employees disagreed so strongly with the in-person working requirements that they took to the streets in front of the company&#8217;s Seattle headquarters last month to protest the move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world is changing, and Amazon needs to embrace the new reality of remote and flexible work,&#8221; the organizers of the demonstration said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the billionaire boss of Tesla and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, went a step further than Jassy, banning telework in the name of productivity and morality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to (tell) the people who make your food that gets delivered, that they can&#8217;t work from home, the people that come fix your house, they can&#8217;t work from home, but you can?&#8221; he said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <!-- Google middle Adsense block --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Half-empty_offices\"><\/span>Half-empty offices<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A third of employees in the United States currently have complete freedom about where they work, compared with just 18 percent in France, according to a recent ADP study of 17 countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I worked for an employer that required five days a week, I just don&#8217;t think that would be on the table for me,&#8221; Claire, the Washington-based consultant, told AFP.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/julie-mcmurtry-joins-a.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2023\/julie-mcmurtry-joins-a.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Julie McMurtry joins a zoom call with co-workers from her home in Arlington, Virginia.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/julie-mcmurtry-joins-a.jpg\" alt=\"Julie McMurtry joins a zoom call with co-workers from her home in Arlington, Virginia\" title=\"Julie McMurtry joins a zoom call with co-workers from her home in Arlington, Virginia.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Julie McMurtry joins a zoom call with co-workers from her home in Arlington, Virginia.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Claire, who requested anonymity to discuss her employment, goes to the office irregularly, usually once every two weeks, sometimes more often. And, given the upsides, she can&#8217;t see herself going back full-time.<\/p>\n<p>She has replaced the metro to work with a walk around the block, no longer wastes time dressing for the office, and sits outside with her laptop whenever the sun shines.<\/p>\n<p>Claire said she sometimes misses conversations with colleagues, but she also realizes the small talk led her to be less productive.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_challenge\"><\/span>A challenge<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite the headlines made by chief executives like Elon Musk, not all managers are opposed to telework.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about &#8220;quality and lifestyle efficiency&#8221; have emerged, said Gayle Smith, chief executive of the Washington-based anti-poverty NGO One, which has offices in cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Raising kids became a bit easier if you didn&#8217;t have to commute every morning,&#8221; she told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Since the onset of the pandemic, some of her employees have left the Washington area in order to be closer to their aging parents, or to follow a spouse who relocates for work.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/americans-have-grown-f.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2023\/americans-have-grown-f.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Americans have grown fond of teleworking and don't want to return to the office.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/americans-have-grown-f.jpg\" alt=\"Americans have grown fond of teleworking and don't want to return to the office\" title=\"Americans have grown fond of teleworking and don't want to return to the office.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Americans have grown fond of teleworking and don&#8217;t want to return to the office.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gayle has seen no decline in efficiency but regrets the loss of the positive dynamic that comes from face-to-face work.<\/p>\n<p>The question now, she says, is how to replicate this dynamic while preserving the lifestyle improvements for her employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can regain that, at least in part, it&#8217;ll put us in a very good place,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Teleworking has become &#8220;part of a cluster of benefits and options that companies can choose to offer workers,&#8221; said Nela Richardson from ADP.<\/p>\n<p>For potential employees, &#8220;it&#8217;s a choice of whether or not you are willing to negotiate that or look for that in your job search,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>But what employees really want, according to Richardson, is the flexibility to choose when they work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not necessarily (that) I want to work from home, I want to be surrounded by dirty dishes and unmade bedsshe said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the fact that I can choose what hours I work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2023 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                Commute no more: US employees embrace telework (2023, June 11)<br \/>\n                                                retrieved 11 June 2023<br \/>\n                                                from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2023-06-commute-employees-embrace-telework.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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